Improvements in tomato growing and cooperativism are the backbone of the XXVII Agricultural Week Sardina del Sur 2012.

HASTA EL PRÓXIMO VIERNES, ABORDARÁN Y DEBATIRÁN EL INCIERTO FUTURO DEL SECTOR DE EXPORTACIÓN.

One more year, y of 27, las cooperativas agrícolas, SAT’s y agricultores del Sureste de Gran Canaria organizan la XXVII Semana Agrícola Sardina del Sur 2012 que se desarrollan en el Centro Cultural “El Cine” de Sardina del Sur.
El programa de esta edición, comienza este miércoles día 16 May from 20:00 horas con la inauguración en la que intervendrán Roberto Goiriz Ojeda, miembro del Comité Organizador de las XXVII Jornadas Agrícolas, Ismael López Falcón, Presidente de FEDEX, Ofelia Alvarado Santana, concejala de Agricultura del Ayto. de Santa Lucía y José Miguel Álamo Mendoza, consejero de Agricultura, Livestock and Fishing of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria.

At 20:30 hours, la Ingeniera Agrónoma y colaboradora científica del ICIA, Vanessa Raya Ramallo will speak on Strategies to improve the productivity of tomato cultivation.

The day 17 may, starting at 20:00 hours, the Doctor in Biology and R+D+I Manager of the company CULTESA, research award “Augustine of Bethencourt” 2009, Leonardo J. Amador Diaz, will address the morphological characterization of traditional varieties of tomatoes from the Canary Islands.

Then, the Island Secretary of the COAG in Gran Canaria, Juan Hernandez, will present the conference: Food Sovereignty, an Opportunity for the Canary Islands.

The day 18 May from 20:00 hours, the General Director of the COAGRISÁN Cooperative, Jacinto Godoy Gonzalez, will speak on Agrarian Cooperatives in the Canary Islands, generational change and professionalization.

At the end of the exhibition, the closing ceremony will take place in which the President of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria will participate., José MIguel Bravo and the mayor of Santa Lucía, Silverio Matos.