Agricultura

Rural communities constitute an important sector of society in Colombia. Their means of life, their productive activities, and their agricultural knowledge are very relevant for the country. If you...

How can you attain a FIRA’s loan trough financial intermediaries? the loan is given mainly to producers that are fully trained or that began training in macro-tunnel or in protected agriculture...

Due to the Mediterranean climate of Spain, where rainfall is scarce (even more during the dry season), is necessary the construction of reservoirs to ensure the availability of water for agricultural...

What is sustainable protected agriculture? Protected agriculture is a way to produce, mainly, two conditions: greater productivity and better quality in order to access international markets which...

What are the main benefits of the technology development center (CDT) Salvador Lira López from the point of view of marketers? As marketers , we have had the opportunity of approaching the CDT Lira...

In FIRA’s technology development center “Salvador Lira López” in Morelia city we offer training and advice to farmers interested in applying sustainable protected agriculture get to know the support...

Our poorest farmers live in the High Plateau. They are not exempt from suffering, drought, frost. Their land is dry and have low productivity. They have no irrigation systems. This is one of the big...

The need to make food products more competitive is driving the incorporation of new cropping techniques. One of these techniques is controlled deficit irrigation. With controlled deficit irrigation...

with the porpoise of increasing the productivity and a sustainble crop production, since last 25 years FIRA has promoted the use of conservation tillage with a sustainable production model that not...

What is the conservation tillage in words form farmers the conservation tillage is not doing any work to land or crops leave the stubble so it works on the land, to protect it with moisture it isn’t...