Socio-productive innovation for the viticulture of Cuyo: development of assisted harvesting and service providers.

Since 2012, the Ministry of Production and Economic Development of San Juan has allocated funds to promote the adoption of assisted harvesting methods by purchasing machinery that municipalities and chambers lent to producers. The equipment was constructed in local workshops, thereby generating a new productive activity. The objective was to demonstrate the advantages through a ripple effect. Directors of two private wineries in the province, who participated in the talks given by INTA, decided to support the process by purchasing assisted harvesting equipment to provide them to some of their suppliers.