b'YOUR FIRST LINE OF DEFENSEAGAINST WHITE MOULDHeads Up Protects YourBeans From. Sudden Death Syndrome Rhizoctonia Root Rot White MouldBayer Crop Sciences Latin America president Mauricio Rodrigues. Photo: BayerBayer Crop Sciences Latin America president Mauricio Rodrigues offered three pillars of his own that will be needed to continue the regions agricultural revolutioninnovation, sustainability and digital transformation.We invest a lot of money globallyroughly around couple billion euros on an annual basisin trying to offer products both in terms of seeds and traits and crop protection. We have a lot of investments coming to the region, he said.Those investments include digital ag platforms and a new partnership with Embrapa focused on fixing carbon in the soil, which has been launched as a pilot project with a couple thousand growers.Such investments are making Latin America a key player in the production of food for the world.The conditions in our region allow for more than one production cycle. At the same time, every single year we lose 30 per cent of the product we produce mainly because of poor infrastructure or suboptimal value chains. We have to produce more, while preserving the means for doing it. To get that better yield we need an agricultural system production system that balances three requirements, Rodrigues went on to say.The first is improved food security and food safety. The second is ensuring minimal impact on the environ-ment and the climate in what we do. The third is provid-ing the basic conditions for proper livelihood and health for all the actors in the value chain. These are the three well-known elements of sustainable agriculture.Visit HeadsUpST.com or A good social safety net is vital for the future of agri-culture, he emphasized.Call 1-866-368-9306 Its a global challenge that nobody can address alone. Cooperation is key, but its not always easy. It requires a large portion of commitment and also compromise, and an understanding that the common good most of the time PMRA Reg. #29827 takes precedence over individual interest, no matter how difficult it is. I do not see any other alternative. 34GERMINATION.CASEPTEMBER 2022'