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Delegation of the Ministry of Agriculture of Trinidad and Tobago learns about water harvesting

On October 10, a delegation from the engineering division of the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries of Trinidad and Tobago visited the facilities of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT). Santiago Jaramillo participated on behalf of FLAR with a technical talk on the transformation of rainfed to irrigation through water harvesting, as a practical…

Signing of the FLAR-CIAT-INIAP-AGRIPAC Agreement in Ecuador

A new model of public-private partnership about the possibility of releasing new rice varieties of FLAR origin in Ecuador, through the signing of an agreement between FLAR, the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the National Institute of Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP) and the Agripac SA corporate group. Through this agreement, called “Evaluation of Nurseries of…

RICE YIELD MONITORING TECHNOLOGIES IN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE SATREPS* PROJECT

    In the framework of the exchange activities of the “Development and adoption of a low input rice production system through genetic breeding and advanced crop management technologies” project, better known as SATREPS, where the Colombian and Japanese governments are collaborating, Dr. Tadashi Chosa, presented his work on a yield monitoring system used during…