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during more than 25 years of promoting conservation tillage
agricultural technology that allows to sow right over
the last harvest without tillage
nor polluting the environment by burning the harvest leftovers; FIRA has contributed in making possible
that today in Mexico exist more than a million acres planted with this
technic
so was informed by FIRA’s CEO Rafael Gamboa Gonzá*** during the
conservation tillage international encounter organized by the institution
as part of the celebration of the 25 anniversary of
conservation tillage promotion
is important
to increase productivity
and that is precisely the challenge imposed to
federal oficies by ten president
here we could seen
great benefits
both in water usare reduction and environment impact
.
the goal that FIRA has is
to increase productivity
and productivity depends on a greater production
lower cost
and to give a better life to farmers
successful farmers as the ones we have here
the international encounter was inaugurated by guanajuato state governor
Miguel Márquez Márquez and FIRA’s CEO among other institution representatives
both local and federal, related to
rural and farming sector, it has important speakers
both national and international, experts in sustainable farming and conservartion
tillage. There were over 1 200 producers from the
states of guanajuato michoacan nayarit puebla
jalisco aguascalientes and zacatecas
I congratulate you for this encounter
where you get
more information, more techniques and you learn a lot from this experiences
successful experiences
that others have not only in guanajuato but in other states
and other countries and we have to learn from other
successful histories
it isn’t about making magic,
plain and simple, see what has worked
and apply that here
here in villadiego, valle de santiago, there were pioneers in this technic
this national center has promoted
during unstopped 25 years
and that has to be recognized and I really thank FIRA
thanks to famers that had bet on this technique
Also in this event
FIRA’s CEO and Guanajuato State University José Manuel
Cabrera Sixto signes a collaboration agrement between this institutions
with the porpoise of establishing common actions in the matters of training
student stays and technical assistance
for technicians, academic personal and farmers
we have
almost 1 200 students that will become labor force
that will be part of this agreement
collaboration agreement that today is a reality and that we hope
gives great result to this sector
also, a commemorative plate was revealed by guanajuato’s governor
and FIRA’s CEO
a commemorative plate to the 25 years of conservation tillage promotion
that trough FIRA’s Technology Center in Villadiego in
valle de santiago guanajuato FIRA is trying to massify
among the farmers the use and adoption of techniques that increase
the grain production
it important to say that the use of conservation tillage or
zero tillage has had great development in the bajío region
of mexico
only in the sate of guanajuato the 64% of farming land applies this technic
in watered land this technology has already reported important
benefits like savings around 17 and 25 percent in production cost
50 percent in water and 50% of diesel and profitability increased
around 20% in crops specialy in grains