De Raíz: A tour of the annual Floriculture exhibition of INTA and all the research projects that are being carried out.

Last week, this section discussed the annual floriculture exhibition held by INTA every year at their Castelar premises. In this context, Silvina Soto, director of the Floriculture Institute, explained in detail the role of the organization in the research, improvement, and transfer of ornamental varieties for the production sector. On this occasion, a tour of the DeRaíz team through the exhibition allowed us to learn closely about the projects, trials, and research being developed within INTA and which later reach nurseries, landscapers, and producers throughout the country. Watch the article: One of the central spaces of the exhibition was that of the trials of ornamental meadows, in charge of engineer Verónica Bugallo. There, experiences initiated in 2020 were presented, with native species evaluated under conditions of zero irrigation, without cutting or cleaning, coexisting with spontaneous vegetation. The objective is to identify plants that can sustain themselves over time, ...