Some twenty Algerian and Spanish agronomists from the Alcantara company have started a training course in technology and commercialization of horticultural crops organized by the Technical School of Agricultural Engineering (ETSIA) of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT).
The UPCT and the agroindustrial company signed an agreement to carry out this training, motivated by the macroproject that the cartagenera firm is developing in Algeria, where it grows melon, courgette, tomato and pepper.
The course, taught by up to ten lecturers at the Polytechnic, consists of lectures and practical classes in the ETSIA laboratories and at the Experimental Agro-alimentary Station Tomás Ferro, as well as visits to leading companies in the agricultural sector in the Region, such as Primiflor , Semirec and SAT San Cayetano.
Students will learn for two weeks post-harvest and frigoconservation techniques, desalination and water storage, phytosanitary control, greenhouse climate control, irrigation systems programming, plant production and marketing.
The classes are taught in Spanish and French, with the help of a translator.
Source: UPCT