October 15, 2019. Launching and training day of the AGROgestor platform for the new replicator pilot of Castilla y León.

The LIFE AGROgestor project launches a new replicator pilot in Castilla y León that will be tutored by NEIKER-Tecnalia and coordinated by ITACYL.

On October 15, the launching and training day of the AGROgestor platform replicator pilot in Castilla y León was held at the ITACYL headquarters in Valladolid, a pilot project replicator of the AGROgestor Platform that is part of the transfer of the platform nationwide in four other autonomous communities.

The day, directed by Olatz Unamunzaga of NEIKER, was attended by technicians from the Agrarian Technological Institute of Castilla y León (ITACYL). The replicating pilot project of Castilla y León will be carried out in the Irrigation Community of the Tordesillas Canal in Valladolid. Irrigation efficiency will be validated in 713 ha. of irrigation of corn, cereals, horticultural with the coordination of ITACYL.

The day has focused on training on the use of the Agroasesor platform, management of actions and inventories, as well as the use of remote sensing, irrigation and nitrogen HADs. The issues related to the organization and management of the pilot have also been discussed.

It is expected that the replication of the project will be carried out at the national level in which several replicas will be launched in 9 Spanish Autonomous Communities, 5 of them are those of the project partners and the other 4 Autonomous Communities will have the support of the Advisory Entities that have transmitted their support to the project and their willingness to replicate the solution, such as ITACYL (in Castilla y León), CITA (in Aragón), IMIDRA (Madrid) and CTAEX (in Extremadura).

The CR Hortifuenla (Fuenlabrada) pilot program, which will be coordinated by IMIDRA and whose tutor is ITAP, has already started in May. And in August the pilot program was launched in the Agrarium (Monzón) farm, coordinated by the CITA and whose tutor is INTIA.

At European level it is intended to identify tools and services that can take advantage of the methodologies developed in this project, through the management of workshops hat will be tutored by IFAPA and coordinated by CTAEX.