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    Training: the challenges of the food industry moving into the classroom

    by Milagros Jurado The food industry is one of the main engines…

    Initiatives for the restoration of degraded soils in Latin America

    The Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and the Tropical Agricultural Research and Higher Education Center (CATIE), have organized a virtual technical forum to present two initiatives aimed at restoring degraded soils developed by international research organizations: the Centre International Cooperation in Agricultural Research for Development (CIRAD, for its acronym in French) and the World Resources Institute (WRI, for its acronym in English).

    Innovation space unprecedented in the field of agrarian organizations european

    "Committed to our land" is the slogan raised by the Valencian Farmers Association (AVA-ASAJA) and the principle underlying its most ambitious project, the Experimental Farm 'Sinyent' in which, through an agreement with the Business Association for Plant Protection (AEPLA), it has been experiencing since its inception in 2011, to produce more and better foods.

    Sheep production starring a discussion forum in Uruguay

    The Uruguayan Wool Secretariat (SUL) will organize the next 1st and 2nd August, at the Radisson Montevideo, the International Seminar on Sheep Production. A discussion forum in which to reflect and exchange information related to sheep production sector in this South American country, addressing its origins, present and future challenges it faces as a representative to keep farming.

    Brazil and Paraguay export good agricultural practices and the latest technology against desertification

    The NGO Practical Action has organized, with the support of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), through the Integral Project Water Management in Family Agriculture (GIAAF), the virtual course "Best practices and technological innovations in planting and water harvesting ". Its purpose, disseminate successful experiences of Brazil and Paraguay on the management of soil, water and vegetation cover as a way to mitigate the effects of drought and combat desertification.

    Jerónimo Molina assumes the presidency of the Cajamar Foundation

    The Board of the Cajamar Foundation has agreed, after meeting on June 21, the appointment as president of Jerónimo Molina Herrera, who is replacing Antonio Pérez Lao. The new president of the Cajamar Foundation, has spent his entire career in COEXPHAL, and in the Chamber of Commerce and Cajamar, where in the last four years has been vice president of the entity.

    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.

    Drones to monitor efficient irrigation

    The general director of Rural Development and Forestry Policy of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Begoña Nieto, stressed the importance of innovation, knowledge and training to further advance the development and modernization of irrigation. Nieto, who has made these statements at the presentation of the conference "Application of drones in the management of irrigation and fire", has recognized the need to incorporate, as soon as possible, the results of the R + D + i they have developed management of irrigated areas.

    Greenhouse YaraAcademy share knowledge and experience with more than 70 technicians

    Yara has organized, framed within their training sessions YaraAcademy two days with a focus on greenhouse vegetable crops. Appointments past 12 and 13 May at facilities Yara has in La Mojonera (Almería) took place. The meetings served to bring technicians 70- -more some of the largest distributors in the area, aspects of nutrition and Yara solution to meet the nutritional needs of crops produced under this system.

    Training of specialists in Big Data Analytics

    The Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) and Grupo Cooperativo Cajamar have signed a collaboration agreement with the aim to encourage the training of professionals capable of analyzing large volumes of data under the new paradigm analytics big data and can meet current demand and future of this new discipline.