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Òscar Ordeig: ‘Projects such as Agrotecnio and the CTFC make us move towards an increasingly efficient model of society’.
The conseller of Agriculture highlights the demonstration project on the black truffle by Agrotecnio and the Centre of Forestry Science and Technology of Catalonia. Funded by the Department of Agriculture, the activity is being carried out at the Maials experimental...
‘The cultivation of camelina can have an exponential growth in the region of Lleida’.
The new informative lunch Breakfast4inno of Agrotecnio and the Agrobiotech Park has addressed the benefits of camelina cultivation, as an alternative to cereals This plant needs less water investment and has a high content of healthy fats. The characteristics...
The production of boletus and chanterelles in Catalonia, affected by climate change
We use artificial intelligence models to predict the effects of climate change on five mushroom species of high socio-economic value. A study carried out by the Centre for Forest Science and Technology of Catalonia (CTFC), the University of Lleida and Agrotecnio...
Funding opportunities for postdoctoral fellows, new debate at the ‘Early Career Forum’
Agrotecnio has organised a new edition of the ‘Early Career Forum’, an event aimed at young researchers who are currently studying for their doctorate or have recently completed their studies. These meetings address cross-cutting issues to help young researchers to...
Habitat, more important than climate in truffle cultivation
A study in which researchers from the CTFC-Agrotecnio unit have taken part concludes that fungal communities are more similar in plantation areas, even if they are in different climates, than between crops and wild areas in the same climatic region. The...
‘14% of food products are lost along the way and do not reach the final consumer’
The new edition of the 'Breakfast4inno' of Agrotecnio and the Agrobiotech Park has dealt with the use of food waste in new useful resources for the market. The case of success of the company Ingredalia, which transforms and commercialises the leftover parts of the...
Agrotecnio host of the Micofood congress, which analyses fungi and mycotoxins in foodstuffs
The Higher Technical School of Agri-Food, Forestry and Veterinary Engineering of the University of Lleida is hosting today and tomorrow the annual meeting of the MICOFOOD congress, a national network that brings together researchers from a dozen universities and...
Photogrammetry, the cow’s milk or the importance of colors in our diet: Agrotecnio workshops in the Nit de la Recerca 2024
The CERCA center Agrotecnio has joined, one more year, the commemoration of the European Research Night. With the support of the University of Lleida, the center has organized some free workshops on September 20, with the aim of disseminating the work done and bring...
Agrotecnio’s staff strengthen relationship in the second edition of ‘Teambuilding’
More than 100 researchers and members of the CERCA center Agrotecnio participated in the second edition of 'Teambuilding', an internal communication activity that fosters group spirit and promotes knowledge among the members of the community, and which aims to become...
‘It is essential to inform the public about the goodness of insects: they allow us to carry out biological control of urban green spaces’
The fourth session of Breakfast4inno dealt with the biological control of pests in urban green spaces. Lleida, 12 September 2024. How to control urban green spaces in a totally biological way?, this was the focus of the fifth edition of the Agrotecnio and Agrobiotech...
Second training day on pest control in urban ecosystems with “natural enemies”
On September 27th, in Madrid, a training day will be held on pest control in urban ecosystems. That same day, the Guide to natural enemies of pests in urban green spaces will also be presented, written by Xavier Pons, Roberto Meseguer and Belén Lumbierres, from the...
Reconstruction of the environmental conditions and cultivation practices when agriculture first emerged in Western Europe
Around 7,000 years ago, the first farmers in the western Mediterranean selected the most fertile land available, cultivated cereal varieties very similar to today’s, and made sparing use of domestic animal manure, as they do today. These are some of the elements that...