One hundred high school students from the Mediterranean institutes Cartagena, Antonio Costa Menarguez Los Alcazares, La Basilica and Poet Sánchez Bautista de Murcia, have now completed the second of the Agrifood Itineraries in Experimental Station Thomas Ferro School of Agricultural UPCT.
Students have the opportunity to meet the research being carried out on the farm as hydroponic and tropical crops.
In them is to reduce the gestation of pineapples from 18 months to 10 without any treatment and passion fruit cultivar get out of their tropical habitat.
In this workshop, students have their own organic sunflowers planted in plastic bottles.
Also, students have known the process of brewing, malting plant from the brewery.
They have also been informed of Eurolegume UPCT project to ensure that legumes reduce 'sojadependencia' of Europe.
Finally, have experienced how you can make vegetable batteries with potatoes.
On Friday, another hundred high school students visited the farm and met Thomas Ferro recovery program and conservation of Murcia chicken and fresh processing of horticultural products such as lettuce, tomatoes, peaches and apples.
Source: UPCT