Fundecitrus professionals participate in Congress in Argentina
A team of specialists from Fundecitrus recently participated in the X Argentine Citriculture Congress in Concordia, Argentina. More than 400 professionals participated in the event, such as producers, researchers, students and national and international references in citriculture and industry, whose main theme was scientific and technological innovations for the sustainable development of citriculture. Fundecitrus researcher […]
What are functional foods?
Food advertisements that promote their therapeutic properties often confuse many consumers. However, those looking for information to respond to their concerns can resort to existing technical assessments on the matter. In an article published in “Salud para Todos”, experts point out that food is a substance that is ingested with the aim of satisfying the […]
Green Prime Minister supports Baden-Württemberg’s winegrowers and farmers in fight against EU plant protection regulation
Baden-Württemberg’s winegrowers and farmers are up in arms against an EU regulation on plant protection. Now they have a prominent comrade-in-arms: the green prime minister. We quote from his letter to EU President von der Leyen. Winfried Kretschmann has given the winegrowers and farmers in Baden-Württemberg massive support. In a letter to the President of […]
Who wins from carbon agriculture?
By Silvia Ribeiro* The largest global companies in agriculture and food have established programs for this purpose, which they call carbon agriculture. For example those of seeds and agrochemicals such as Bayer-Monsanto y Cortevaof fertilizers like Children y Nutrientsof machinery like John Deere they incorporated into their digital platforms ways to enroll and even pay […]
Frozen Berries: Only these you should buy, they are the best and contain no pesticides
According to a new test conducted in Switzerland, some frozen berries contain traces of pesticides, sometimes even of several types together (but always in accordance with the law). However, organic products come out well from the test, the only ones we should buy if we want to be sure of not ingesting even small quantities […]
How is the corn market?
Corn prices in Chicago also rose a little this week after Easter. The cereal bushel closed on Thursday (13) at US$ 6.52, against US$ 6.43 a week before. The USDA report, on the 11th, brought little news. He held the latest US crop at 348.8 million tonnes and ending stocks at 34.1 million. In world […]
From the UNLP they created maps that show the impact of pesticides and fertilizers on the Buenos Aires soil
Researchers from the Laboratory for Research and Reflection on Agroecology (LIRA) of the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences of the UNLP designed thematic maps that allow visualizing the environmental risk of agricultural activities and the use of pesticides and fertilizers in the province of Buenos Aires. The team, which is led by the doctor […]
Pesticides, it is the most contaminated and dangerous fruit for health
For proper nutrition, fruit and vegetables should never be missing from our daily tables. Something that nutritionists and dietitians never tire of repeating. Fundamental to provide the body with all the nutrients it needs, vegetables and fruits they are, in fact, the perfect foods even in the case of slimming diets since their calorie content […]
scientists organize a funeral procession for insects
The Scientific Associations in Rebellion and Extinction Rebellion organized a procession in the Jardin des Plantes, in front of the National Museum of Natural History, under the banner “Silent Spring: pesticides kill”. A hundred people formed a funeral procession on Saturday in Paris to denounce, at the call of scientists, the “catastrophic consequences of the […]
Covid treatment can be harvested
Cutting-edge therapy can help get ahead of viral variants. Arizona State University scientists use transient expression in tobacco plants to quickly and cheaply “harvest” large amounts of a new type of monoclonal antibody that prevents infection by the SARS-CoV-2 virus and has a low risk of generating resistance upon binding to an area away from […]