Ierapetra: ‘Colloquium on innovations in rational vegetable fertilisation’
On Friday, 22 September 2023, at 07:00 p.m., an informational colloquium will be held on: ‘Innovations for rational vegetable fertilisation – Innovation through the Rural Development Programme’.
The event will be held in the meeting room of the ‘Anatoli’ Agricultural Association of the Municipality of Ierapetra (Stomio, Ierapetra).
Speakers from the Laboratory of Vegetable Production of the Agricultural University of Athens and from HUMOFERT and MUGAVERO, companies with long-standing experience in plant nutrition, will present new approaches and technologies for vegetable fertilisation, such as innovative decision-making systems and biostimulants.
The colloquium will include discussions on the Common Agricultural Policy, Measure 16 ‘COOPERATION’, and the transition to the new interventions of the CAP 2023-2027 SP by GAIA EPICHEIREIN, a primary production sector service provider.
The event is open to producers who are interested in the developments in the Common Agricultural Policy and the new solutions in fertilising their vegetables.
The colloquium will place in the context of an approved pilot project of the Measure 16 – ‘Cooperation’ of Greece’s Rural Development Programme 2014-2022.
Please find below the colloquium programme.
| 19.00 – 19.10 | Arrival – Registration |
| 19.10 – 19.30 | The Common Agricultural Policy – The transition to the new interventions of the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027 SP, Nikos Papakonstantinou, Executive of the Department of Rural Development & Project Management, GAIA EPICHEIREIN |
| 19.30 – 19.40 | Measure 16 ‘Cooperation’ of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2022, Maria Korre, Executive of the Department of Rural Development & Project Management, GAIA EPICHEIREIN |
| 19.40 – 20.00 | Modern approaches and rational fertilisation technologies of Prof. Dimitrios Savvas, Dean of the School of Plant Sciences, Agricultural University of Athens |
| 20.00 – 20.10 | Break |
| 20.10 – 20.30 | Biostimulants – New trends in the fertiliser market, Assistant Professor Georgia Datsi, Laboratory of Vegetable Production, Agricultural University of Athens |
| 20.30 – 20.50 | Nitrogen-fixing phyllosphere endophytes and their applications in vegetable production – the case of NITROSTIM, Dr Filio Demirtzoglou, HUMOFERT S.A |
| 20.50 – 21.10 | Seaweed extracts and protein hydrolases as alleviators of abiotic stress in vegetable crops – the case study of Tyson and Kelpstar Dr Carlo Gambino, MUGAVERO TERESA S.A.S |
| 21.10 – 21.30 | Discussion |