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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...
Legumes to boost cropping systems in the Ebro Valley
Arable crop farms in the Ebro Valley are facing low yields due to high production costs and low cereal prices. To address this problem, research is being carried out on innovative production systems with grain legumes such as chickpeas, lentils and beans. On Thursday,...
Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for the agri-food sector: Agrifood TEF project presentation in Spain
Innovation and technology were the focus of the presentation event of the Spanish satellite of AgrifoodTEF, the largest project in Europe focused on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics in the agri-food sector. The event, which took place yesterday in Madrid, brought...
Genetics to identify more disease-resilient pigs
Researchers from the University of Lleida (UdL) and Agrotecnio have identified some genetic variants that could have a protective effect against porcine respiratory disease complex (PRDC). These are the results of the national research project Resilmarker, led by...
Breakfast4inno speakers advocate for genetically edited rice to fight against rice blast
Teresa Capell, professor at the University of Lleida and researcher at Agrotecnio, has spent decades researching the genetic improvement of rice. Together with Marc Fontquerna, agronomist and rice production advisor at the Agrupació de Defensa Vegetal de l'Arròs de...
Gene-edited rice plants, the pesticide-free option to fight pyricularia
Rice blast is a disease that is widespread throughout the world and causes major losses in global rice production. The European Parliament's favourable position on the European Commission's legislative proposal on New Genomic Techniques (NGT) opens the door to new...
Agrotecnio and IRBLleida invest €135,000 in their second joint call for Agrohealth projects
The second edition of Agrohealth, the call for research projects in Agriculture, Food, Nutrition and Health of Agrotecnio and IRBLleida, was presented today at the IRBLleida headquarters. Endowed with €135,000 of own funds from both centres, Agrohealth is a unique...