September 30, 2019. Launching and training day of the AGROgestor platform for the new Extremadura replicator pilot.

The LIFE AGROgestor project launches a new replicator pilot in Extremadura that will be tutored by IFAPA and coordinated by CTAEX.

Yesterday, at the IFAPA Alameda del Obispo de Córdoba headquarters, the launching and training day of the AGROgestor platform replicator pilot in Extremadura was held, a pilot project replicator of the AGROgestor Platform that is part of the national platform transfer in four other autonomous communities.

The day, directed by Elisabet Carpintero of IFAPA, has been attended by two technicians from the Extremadura Agrifood Technology Center (CTAEX), in charge of coordinating the pilot in collaboration with the Pradillo agricultural cooperative located in an area of ​​high nitrate contamination with around 500 ha in 297 plots. IFAPA will be the tutor of this replication pilot. 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 or workshops.