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PROSOJA: Asociación de Fitomejoradores e Investigadores en Soja de la Argentina.

PROSOJA es una asociación civil sin fines de lucro, que nuclea a fitomejoradores e investigadores en Soja de la Argentina tanto del sector público como del sector privado. Fue creada en 1983 en la ciudad de Tucumán en ocasión de la VIII Reunión Nacional de Soja, organizada por la tradicional Asociación Argentina de la SOJA. Varias fueron las razones que llevaron a la mayoría de los principales investigadores en el cultivo a proponer su creación, entre las cuales se mencionan: la reglamentación vigente de la Ley de Semillas 20247 como incentivo a la investigación en todos los aspectos, la necesidad de fijar objetivos y actividades coordinadas en investigación entre el sector público y privado, la visión sobre las posibilidades de crecimiento del cultivo y de la tecnología a aplicar, la experiencia internacional en asociaciones de este tipo, la necesidad de tener un foro de intercambio entre las personas involucradas más allá de las propias estructuras profesionales y comerciales existentes, y la importancia de mantener programas locales dirigidos a los propios problemas nacionales. El grupo fundador de PROSOJA estaba integrado por los siguientes profesionales: Julio R. Ferrarotti (p.), Luis Salado Navarro, Ernesto Zelarayán, Néstor Padullés, Juan C. Suarez, Víctor Kopp, Rodolfo Rossi, Oscar Ricci, Isidro Cettour, Bibiana Ferrari, Miguel Galván, Daniel Ploper, Diana Fresoli, Carlos Smith, entre otros.

From its foundation, PROSOJA participated actively in activities of crop promotion, in the orientation on research plans, in the technical organization of congresses and specialized events, and in the continuous training and training of its members. It also maintained permanent interaction with other sectors of the soybean complex, which finally together became the largest national Agroindustry.

PROSOJA was characterized by a permanent low profile over time, and its actions were financed by the partners themselves or through the institutions to which they belonged.

Among the activities of PROSOJA there are the classic Summer Technical Tours, with the observation of the crops themselves, their potential, their limitations and the discussion in situ of the actions to be promoted in order to improve them.

The role played PROSOJA in the technical organization of the 1989 World Congress, in Buenos Aires, was a turning point in its connection with the world of research in Soja, which today is one of its strengths.

The Winter Technical Meetings allowed researchers from Argentina to be nuclearized in areas related to Genetic Improvement, Phytopathology and ecophysiology.
In 1997 at the Ordinary Summer Assembly, once again in the city of Tucumán, the associates decided to take a transcendent step in the history of the Association; the request of the Legal Entity which was achieved in a short time. A) Yes PROSOJAToday, it can establish important associations with related entities, both national and international, and ultimately provide a legal framework for its operation.

The number of associates has grown significantly since its founding. PROSOJA it maintains in the first place the same spirit of human and professional approach, and at the same time it has constituted a permanent opinion in the forums that it promotes and participates.

It is pride of PROSOJA el contribuir permanentemente al crecimiento del cultivo en la Argentina.