BASF will train technicians of DCoop in olive growing and olive grove solutions

BASF Spain and DCoop cooperative group have signed a collaboration agreement by which BASF is committed over the next three years to provide training to technicians DCoop in key aspects of olive growing and olive grove solutions. The agreement, signed on May 11th by the Director of the Division of Crop Protection BASF Spain, Silvia Cifre, and deputy General Manager of DCoop, Rafael Sanchez de Puerta Diaz, includes updating the technical staff of the cooperative in such matters as new ways of controlling olive fly, integrated control tools repilo or physiology of olives and oil quality.

DCoop is the world’s largest producer of olive oil and table olives with 400,000 hectares of olive groves and 50 million olive trees, a large food cooperative that in turn has as partners to 75,000 farmers in southern Spain.

With this partnership, BASF fulfills its objective of supporting the work of the farmer by offering solutions to their needs and transmitting new developments in research, in this case, in the olive sector. Technicians of DCoop may know, from the hand of BASF and other international experts in olive growing, most innovative methods in the field of olive growing and control of the most common problems of this crop, as the olive fly, or repilo.

With a turnover of 5,400 million euros in 2014, Division Crop Protection BASF offers innovative solutions in crop protection, seed treatment and biological control, and management solutions for water, nutrients and plant stress. Its portfolio also includes products for turf and ornamental plants, pest control and public health. The Crop Protection division of BASF is a leading innovator supporting producers to optimize agricultural production, enabling them to produce high quality food more efficiently. Through new technologies and know-how, the Crop Protection division of BASF supports producers to have them and their family a better life.