On Monday 9th July, took place in Milan (Italy), the discussion of Viviana Cavallaro’s thesis: Sviluppo di varietà commerciali italiane resistenti allo stress salino e a Pomacea Insularum attraverso introgressione del Locus Saltol in Oryza Sativa, varietà onice e vialone nano. Cavallaro was a student of the University of Milan, master degree in “Biotecnologie Vegetali, Alimentari e Agro-Ambientali” and her thesis was […]

The French Academy of Agriculture visited the French Rice Center in Arles on the 7th and 8th June 2018. The Camargue rice production and the different activities of the French Rice Center were presented to the 17 academy member attendants as well as new opportunities for the future (alternative practices, drones, new herbicides). This was […]

The Workshop on Studies on Apple Snail Control took place in Amposta on February 1, and was organised by Catalonia Agriculture Department. The workshop proved that there is a need to achieve salinity tolerant rice varieties as the only way to maintain rice crop in saline conditions, especially after rice fields are flooded with sea water.

On February 2 took place in Amposta (Spain) the first Neurice meeting of 2018. The partners involved were Mar Català (IRTA, Amposta), Xavier Serrat (UB, Barcelona), Salvador Nogués (P1, UB) and Camilo Lopez (P1, UB). Català and Serrat were the organisers of the meeting. 22 people attended, 50% of them were part of the cientific community, 25% […]

On February 13 took place the XIV Rice Workshop at Deltebre (Spain). IRTA researcher Mar Català organised the event, attended by 250 people. 25% of the attendees to the event were part of the scientific community; 60% were part of the industry; and 15% were policy makers and authorities. During the workshop, researchers presented their […]