Juan Antonio Reyes, an international role model in the farming of tropical fruits

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His family has always been tied to this field. Juan Antonio Reyes Gutiérrez left his medicine career to lend a hand to the family business. In 1993 he founded Reyes Gutiérrez S.L., committed to the production of tropical fruits such as avocados and mangos and based in Vélez-Málaga. They export these products throughout Europe from […]

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Olive oil producers from Jaén choose pistachio as an alternative to single-crop farming

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The province of Jaén has the appropriate conditions to cultivate the pistachio, and since 2013, an association has dedicated its time to developing this crop, which arrived in Spain at the end of the 20th century. In 2 years, the association has begun production with 200 small farmers, and dedicates 250 hectares to the cultivation […]

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Precision agriculture with drones to save 70% in plague and weed control

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One of the concerns of both farmers and researchers is plague and weed control, in addition to its high cost and the environmental damage. That’s why a research group from the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture in Cordova has developed technology based in remote sensing with uses drones which fly over crops to monitor them. Their […]

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