Webinar: Technological innovation applied to irrigation advisory services and the irrigation modernization.

Published at: 12 September 2021

The project Sistema de Asesoramiento al Regante y TICs launches this event to disseminate technological innovation in irrigation, as a support of decision-making at the farm level and the modernization of irrigation at system level.

Objective

To make visible the application of new technologies to support irrigation decision-making at the farm level and the modernization process of irrigation.

Proposal

The FONTAGRO RG-T3387-AgTech 19037 project “Sistema de Asesoramiento al Regante (SAR): ¿cuándo regar y cuánto regar? Las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TICs) como herramientas para fortalecer la capacidad de la toma de decisiones de la agricultura familiar” organizes this event to spread technological innovation in irrigated agriculture. This webinar is meant as a place to share experiences, in which visibility is given to the development and use of new technologies. It will have an estimated duration of 1 hour and 20 minutes and will be open to the public. Questions can be asked by chat to the panelists, which will be answered after the presentations are finished.

Date: September 16th, 2021.

Time: 9:30 (Argentina).

Languaje: Spanish

Welcome words

Dra. Eugenia Saini (Executive Secretary of FONTAGRO); Dr. Carlos Parera (National Director of INTA of Argentina); Eng. MSc. Mario Mondino (Director INTA EEA Santiago del Estero, Argentina); Dr. Roberto Martínez, Coordinator of the Project "Efficient use of water in irrigation systems" (INTA of Argentina).

Speakers

Dr. Gabriel Angella. INTA, Argentina (M.P. 2915). Lead Researcher Project FONTAGRO RG-T3387-AgTech 19037 “Sistema de Asesoramiento al Regante (SAR): ¿cuándo regar y cuánto regar? Las Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación (TICs) como herramientas para fortalecer la capacidad de la toma de decisiones de la agricultura familiar”.

Dr. Luciano Mateos Iñiguez. Instituto de Agricultura Sostenible-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IAS-CSIC, Spain). Technical reference for Spain in the FONTAGRO RG-T3387-AgTech 19037 Project.

Moderator: Agricultural Engineer Carolina Frías (INTA, Argentina).

Transmission link: YouTube INTAExperimentalSantiago https://youtu.be/HKI8iHYQeLs

Programme

Technological innovation applied to irrigation advisory services and the irrigation modernization

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16th. 

(ARGENTINA TIME)

09:30 - 09:40

Welcome words: Dra. Eugenia Saini, Secretaria Ejecutiva de FONTAGRO; Dr. Carlos Parera (Director Nacional de INTA de Argentina); Ing. Agrónomo MSc. Mario Mondino (Director INTA EEA Santiago del Estero, Argentina); Dr. Roberto Martínez, Coordinador del Proyecto “Uso y gestión eficiente del agua en sistemas de regadío” (INTA de Argentina).

09:40 – 10:00

Presentation 1.  Dr. Ing. Agrónomo Gabriel Angella. INTA-EEA Santiago del Estero, Argentina. Proyecto FONTAGRO RG-T3387-AgTech 19037. Sistemas de Asesoramiento al Regante y las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación.

10:00 – 10:30

Presentation 2. Dr. Ing. Agrónomo Luciano Mateos Iñiguez. IAS-CSIC, España. The modernization of irrigation: expected and unexpected effects and the Spanish experience.

10:30 – 10:45

Exchange between panelists and attendees (questions or comments via chat).

10:45 – 10:50

Closure.

 Time for different countries

Argentina

Uruguay

Ecuador

Colombia

Perú

 

Costa Rica

Nicaragua

Honduras

Bolivia

Venezuela

Chile

Paraguay

España

9:30 am

7:30 am

6:30 am

8:30 am

2:30 pm

Sponsors
BID
IICA
With the support of
Fondo Coreano de Alianza para el Conocimiento en Tecnología e Innovación (KPK)