El Carpio hosts the first seminar with the agricultural community of the South Mediterranean region of Diverfarming
Around 30 people attended the first of the annual seminars in El Carpio, Cordoba, that the Diverfarming team will hold to create the ‘Farmers Community’ which puts into practice the sustainable agricultural techniques posed by the European project.
People interested in the options that agriculture has for mitigating climate change met in the Patio de la Torre de Garci Méndez in El Carpio together with farmers who have opted for the ecological option in their olive groves, and owners interested in diversifying their olive groves for environmental reasons, as well as for the matter of production.
The Cordoba team of Diverfarming, comprising Luis Parras, Beatriz Lozano and Manuel González were on hand to resolve doubts, gather experiences and exchange opinions. They reviewed the milestones of their case study: the diversified olive grove located in Torredelcampo (Jaén).
The management options regarding the crops that are sown in the olive grove’s alleys, which in this case are saffron, lavender and a mix of vetch and oats, together with the machinery possible to handle them were the main concerns of those attending.
The gathering ended with enriched knowledge for both the general public as well as the research group who knew the different techniques that the olive farmers of the zone employed. The Diverfarming farmers community was also strengthened, since several of those attending saw crop diversification as an option for the near future.
Diverfarming is a project financed by the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Commission, within the challenge of “Food Security, Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry, Marine, Maritime and Inland Water Research and the Bioeconomy”, which counts on the participation of the Universities of Cartagena and Córdoba (Spain), Tuscia (Italy), Exeter and Portsmouth (United Kingdom), Wageningen (Netherlands), Trier (Germany), Pecs (Hungary) and ETH Zurich (Switzerland), the research centres Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l'analisi dell'economia agraria (Italy), the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain) and the Natural Resources Institute LUKE (Finland), the agrarian organisation ASAJA, and the companies Casalasco and Barilla (Italy), Arento, LogísticaDFM and Industrias David (Spain), Nieuw Bromo Van Tilburg and Ekoboerdeij de Lingehof (Netherlands), Weingut Dr. Frey (Germany), Nedel-Market KFT and Gere (Hungary) and Paavolan Kotijuustola and Polven Juustola (Finland).
