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FEMAC, the Production Means Cluster of Catalonia, organizes the 7^th edition of the Pic Meeting, the most important event in the plant production industry that is held annually in Europe, in Lleida on 27 and 28 September 2017. This event is aimed at SMEs, Research Centres, agricultural companies, professionals in the field, Start Ups, and clusters from all over the world.

The first day of these conferences, will take place in the Science and Agrifood Park of Lleida, will focus on a general idea about European Programmes in innovation in agriculture and plants. The rapporteur is expected to be Ms Lise Lykke Steffensen CEO of the NordGen centre, responsible for managing Svalbard GLOBAL SEED VAULT (https://www.croptrust.org/), a seed store where up to 933,000 samples are stored to ensure crop diversity and global food security. We will also have representatives from the Ellen McArthur Foundation who will talk to us about the concept of “Circular Economy” in agriculture. In the afternoon there will be 4 parallel workshops, where each participant can choose beforehand according to their interests. These workshops will deal with Crop Management issues, which will be addressed by Mr. Henrik Lynge Jacobsen, from the Danish company AGROINTELLI, who will introduce us to innovative technologies applied to crop management. Other topics to be addressed include the digitization of the agricultural sector and innovations in technologies for crop genetics. During the second day, which will be held at the Lleida Fair, within the framework of the Sant Miquel-Eurofruit Fair, B2B sessions will be held among the participants to promote future strategic cooperation and parallel visits to IRTA, the Institute for Agricultural Research of Catalonia, and a vine plantation in Raimat, run by AGROPIXEL, a crop management consultancy.

The Pic Meeting has already held 6 editions since 2011 in different French cities such as Paris, Marseille, Angers and Montpellier and countries such as Portugal and Argentina, all with the same format. Previous editions have been motivated by the main objective of developing international cooperation, in terms of international missions for its members and to collaborate in European projects, all positioning the event in the sector of plant production. Under this objective, the Inter Plant Cluster Consortium centralizes its innovations in the following crops: cereals, seeds, fruit and vegetables, ornamental horticulture, vines, tropical plants, medicinal and aromatic.

For more information:
FEMAC
Elisabeth Molina
Tel. 00 34 973 224 921
E-mail: [email protected]
Webpage: http://picmeeting2017.femac.org
Facebook: Pic Meeting 2017: https://www.facebook.com/pic.meeting1253
Twitter: https://twitter.com/pic_meeting

LleidaDrone organizes during the morning of Thursday 28 September the X Professional Conferences and Amateur

The 63^rd edition of the Sant Miquel Agricultural Fair and the 32^nd edition of Eurofruit, which will be held from September 28 to October 1, will host the 10^th LleidaDrone Professional and Amateur Conferences, organized by the LleidaDrone Association, with the collaboration of Fira de Lleida, the cluster Catalonia Smart Drones —under the auspices of the Generalitat de Catalunya’s secretary of Telecommunications— and several partners.

The 10^th LleidaDrone Professional and Amateur Conferences will be held on Thursday, September 28, from 10:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. in the Conference Hall of Pavilion 4, and will focus on Precision Agriculture with drones. During the lectures, the experts will expose to the professionals of the sector its technological innovations divided in precision agriculture —will be exposed concrete cases of operation of the drones in the agricultural farms and the improvements that they have contributed to the farmers— and will speak on the sector of the drones in general.

On Thursday 28^th, from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m., live demonstration flights will be held at the LleidaDrone Arena, a large 4,500 m3 space with safety nets, located at the entrance of Pavilion 4, which will recreate an agricultural estate (with 30 large palm trees). Several firms will conduct continuous demonstrations of drone flight, data capture and reporting to explain to the farmers the processes and results directly.

The demonstrations will be repeated throughout Friday and Saturday afternoon, in a day addressed to the children, in which will be launched multiple drones of a suitable size so that the youngest and young can have a first experience in the world of drones. In addition, on Sunday, October 1, from 12 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., drone races and free flights will be performed.

During the four days of the double exhibition fair, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., the LleidaDrone Arena exhibition space will be open, in which LleidaDrone and the companies Teleponent, Dronnord, Intech3D and Liquid Galaxy LAB will present their innovations.

The Square of the Oil, is a space in the Sant Miquel Agricultural Fair–Eurofruit dedicated to the world of oil production and marketing, and will have as a star player the Protected Denomination of Origin Les Garrigues, which will represent the 25 cooperatives registered in its protected territory.

The use of photovoltaic panels to produce energy to pump water, the star of the innovations that visitors will see

Professionals who visit the Sant Miquel Agricultural Fair and the Eurofruit exhibition, parallel events that will take place from September 28 to October 1, 2017 at the Fira de Lleida, will find a wide range of services and innovations related to irrigation. This year, Aigües del Segarra Garrigues, SA (ASG), Hidrolec, Ongrub Medi Ambient, SL, Regs RM and Hidromatic Ponent, SL

Aigües del Segarra Garrigues, SA (ASG) participates for another year with its own stand at Sant Miquel-Eurofruit to inform and resolve doubts to irrigators and the public in general about the Segarra-Garrigues System. ASG is the company awarded the contract for the execution of the land consolidation projects and the drafting of the construction projects, the execution of the works, the operation and maintenance of the irrigation system of the Segarra-Garrigues System.

Hidrolec is committed to watering the solar pumping system with the use of photovoltaic panels to obtain the energy of the sun to run a submerged water pump and extract the amount needed to irrigate several hectares of fields. Hidrolec is a family-owned company that is dedicated mainly to the treatment of water and electricity in all its aspects: wells and perforations, hydraulic networks, irrigation, pumps, electricity, alternative energies, remote management and water treatment.

Ongrub Medi Ambient, SL will present at Sant Miquel-Eurofruit its water pumping system, with the use of energy produced by photovoltaic panels. This photovoltaic solar installation for self-consumption has already been used in different fields with fruit trees and almond trees. Ongrub Medi Ambient, SL is dedicated to the commercialization, the design, the execution of work and the maintenance of irrigation systems (dripping and sprinkling), pumping stations, irrigation communities, filtration, automatism, irrigation gardening, drinking water networks, swimming pools and water treatment.

Regs RM is a specialist in the agricultural sector, in irrigation winders, irrigation systems (sprinkling and dripping), total sprinkler coverings, waterproofing of reservoirs, hydraulic works and pumping systems. The company is increasingly supplying automated irrigation facilities, which are used by small and large farmland owners and offer significant water and energy savings, since programmers can be used to determine the hours and amount of water. The most common installations are the system of irrigation by winder (the most economical option and allowing irrigation of several plots with the same machine), pivot system (for a specific plot) and irrigation system by sprinkling and dripping.

Hidromatic Ponent, SL will present at Sant Miguel–Eurofruit the latest developments in facilities, materials and accessories for irrigation in farms.

Soil fertility, optimization of irrigation, plant health and pistachio cultivation, central themes of the sessions

The Sant Miquel Agrarian Fair and the Eurofruit exhibition, parallel events that will take place from September 28 to October 1, 2017 at the Fira de Lleida, have already closed the first professional days focused on current issues such as production efficiency, irrigation and fertigation, plant health or the cultivation of pistachio. It should be remembered that this double agrarian event will host more than fifty technical activities between conferences, seminars, presentations, demonstrations and tastings.

The cultivation of the pistachio will focus one of the outstanding technical conferences of the Sant Miquel Agricultural Fair–Eurofruit. The conference will take place on Friday, September 29, from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. In the Hall of Congresses of the Lleida Fairgroud.

The program of the conference, organized by Ibercaja, is divided into two parts. The first, “The cultivation of pistachio. 40 years of experience. Why plant pistachio? Investment, seedlings, cultivation, production and marketing”, will be carried out by Lluís Mateu, from Viveros Sant Roc. The second, “Alternatives of the propagation of pistachio. Need for grafting. Pattern propagation: micropropagation. Propagation of varieties: grafting, micrografting”, will be developed by Arancha Arbeloa, Elena García and Juan A. Marín, from the Experimental Station of Aula Dei-CSIC.