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The Technical University of Cartagena (UPCT) and the Central Syndicate of Irrigation Tajo-Segura (Scrats) today signed the constitution of a technological chair to investigate and optimize the use of desalinated water in agricultural crops.
The signing took place during the event for the 38th anniversary of the transfer Tajo-Segura, held at the headquarters of Cajamar in Murcia and attended by the president of the Community, the president of the Assembly, the Minister of Agriculture and the delegate The Government, among other authorities, and numerous representatives of civil society and the agricultural sector.
Agricultural researchers from the Polytechnic will experiment in a real agricultural plot to compare the effect of irrigation with desalinated sea water on irrigation with water from the transfer and look for the most efficient mix, taking into account crop production and water costs and Of fertilizers, and less harmful to agricultural produce and land.
"Israel and Southeast Spain are the only places in the world where irrigation with desalinated water is being massively incorporated, so there are very few studies on their agronomic repercussions," explains Victoriano Martínez, director of this new chair, the thirtieth To join the UPCT Network.
Martínez, together with the researcher at the School of Agronomists at the Bernardo Martín Polytechnic, already prepared a report for the Irrigation Workers' Union on the agronomic problems involved in the application of desalinated marine water to agricultural irrigation.
This report concluded that desalination should be a complement, but not the sole irrigation resource, and recommended that volumes from the sea should not exceed 40% in La Pedrera Reservoir.
The chair created today will be named 'Trasvase y sostenibilidad José Manuel Claver Valderas', in honor of the late president of Scrats.
It is the first chair that constitutes the Union of Irrigators and will soon convene an annual fellowship of initiation to the research for a student of the Polytechnic.
The Chair will also award the best UPCT Finishing Work in the field of agricultural water management.
In addition, it is planned to organize two annual events that will consist mainly of institutional days, aimed at addressing issues of special relevance in the framework of the sustainable development of irrigation, and technical days, aimed at training students and professionals in the irrigation sector .
The UPCT Chairs Network is divided into technological, entrepreneurship and socio-economic chairs.
All of them carry out training, research and development or transfer of knowledge in areas of common interest.
It emerges as an instrument to strengthen the relationship between university and companies, both local and national or multinational, and the need to link higher education with companies, linking knowledge and productive fabric.
The Chairs Network is currently made up of thirty companies and organizations committed to developing R & D & I activities and to award scholarships for the last students.
In 2015, the Network of Chairs of the UPCT won the national prize of the Spanish Network of Foundations Universidad Empresa (REDFUE).
Yesterday, 500 attendees crowded the Auditorium of the UPCT to attend the First Campus of the Chairs Network of the Polytechnic of Cartagena.
Source: UPCT
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