On 25th may IRTA’s field station at Ebro’s Delta held an open field day to present the latest knowledge on dry seeding. Among other topics, IRTA researchers explained the results of the assays of fertilisation and rice varieties to producers, technicians and administration deputies. The event included a brief presentation of the Neurice project and […]

IRTA researcher and Neurice partner M. del Mar Català was at the International Temperate Rice Conference in Griffith Australia on March 2016. She presented the oral communication: Apple snail: a new invading pest in rice fields in Europe,  where she explained how the Neurice project is working to control the plague. The topic was broadcasted in local […]

The Consorzio Agrario dell’Emilia and S.I.S. (Società Italiana Sementi S.p.a.) in collaboration with Bonifiche Ferraresi S.p.a., organized the Rice Technical Seminar, that was hold on September 12th in the field “Ex Court Neghelli”, along the road between Tresigallo and Jolanda di Savoia. The day included a visit to experimental fields related to the “Programma RISO SIS 2016/2017”. This […]

On 30th September Xavier Serrat, IP from Neurice, defended his PhD “Applied biotechnology to improve Mediterranean rice varieties”. It was developed as an Industrial Doctorate project between Barcelona University and Càmera Arrossera del Montsià. This work, that was the basis for the Neurice project, received the Cum Laude distinction.

IRTA researcher Mar Català attended the XXV International Congress of Entomology organized by the Entomological Society of America. It was hold in Orlando (USA) on from 25th to 30 August. Català presented a conference at the Symposium Global Challenges in Rice Pest Management “New approaches to midge management in temperate direct-seeded rice“. Català also met the […]