Leonardo Togno, a “Seed Healer” of INTA, Collects Varieties of Vegetables as if They Were Figurines: “It Helps Us to Have an Answer to the Future,” He Says.

His daily work may remind him of the best recreations in the school yard, when changing figurines to fill the album was a must. The truth is that the agronomist Leonardo Togno is in charge of collecting seeds as if they were figurines so that the INTA La Consulta bank has the most extensive collection of vegetables and aromatics. It is the main one in Argentina of this type. This germplasm bank to help producers in a very specialized area in the…