High iron bean project financed by FONTAGRO disseminates agroclimatic risk management tools for this crop with academia and Caribbean producers

Published at: 06 June 2023

During the training and dissemination cycle of year one of the project, five workshops were held aimed at academia, regional actors, producers and beneficiary indigenous communities. The activities were taught at the Free University of Barranquilla, Fundación Universitaria del Area Andina, Valledupar headquarters, Cuba-Putumayo village and Arhuaca communities of the Umuriwa and Ikarwa reservations located in the rural area of the capital of the department of César. The workshops were conducted by the researcher Ph.D. senior of the Motilonia Research Center, Adriana Tofiño, the master researcher of the Research Center, Palmira Yanine Rozo, the master researcher of the Tibaitatá Research Center, Douglas Gómez, and the technology transfer professional of the La Switzerland Research Center (Cúcuta headquarters), Elizabeth Rochel .

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