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The Ministry of Agriculture and Food of Ghana studies acquire the lysimeter, climate station and low-cost sensors that develops and manufactures the EBT (Technology Based Company) Telenatura, created by professors from the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) and Miguel Hernández (UMH).
A delegation from the African country, headed by the director general of the Ministry of Development, Simon Celery, visited the office and laboratory in UPCT Telenatura and experimental equipment installed on the campus of the UMH Orihuela.
The visit and the probable purchase of equipment is part of a project of international cooperation and technology transfer companies and OTK Incatema solutions being developed in Ghana, promoting agricultural training centers and farms demonstration and experimentation throughout the country to train Ministry technicians and local farmers.
"They want to be the regional reference in agricultural research and be prepared for future problems of water shortages," said Daniel Fernandez, Incatema.
"The technology we've seen in the UPCT is very advanced and would like to apply it in our country to increase agricultural production," says the engineer Patrick O. Aboagye.
Both lysimeter, an instrument to meet the water needs of the crop, as the health resort developed by Telenatura cost approximately 10,000 euros.
"With a price of 0.25 € per cubic meter of water, as the farmers have the peninsular Southeast, the investment pays for itself in a single season through savings in water use is achieved," says the professor Cartagena Polytechnic José Miguel Molina.
Telenatura, a company whose capital have a 5% both UPCT as UMH, undertakes applied research for agriculture and engineering and consulting services.
He is currently studying for the Ministry of Agriculture of the Region of Murcia the flooding of irrigation ponds.
Telenatura administrator, professor Antonio Hernández Miguel Ruiz Canales, highlights the progress that has led the firm to establish its headquarters in Building Research Laboratories (ELDI) of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.
Source: UPCT
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