Xinzo de Limia focuses the potato debate on Spain and Portugal

Published 2024년 8월 30일

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The article reports on the inauguration of the new edition of ProLimia and Alimagro fairs by María Álvarez Xinzo, aiming to bolster the traditional trade and agricultural sector of the region. The mayors of Orense and Pontevedra, along with the president of the Ourense Provincial Council, emphasized the sector's strength and the importance of continued training to meet challenges like irrigation. The fair's internationalization and the potential of the Pataca de Galicia potato, protected by an IXP, were also highlighted. The article also discusses the current state of the potato cultivation in Europe, with improvements in tuberization and reduced disease rates expected for the next campaign. Challenges such as the need for more mechanization and professionalization, reduced active ingredients, and pest resistance were also addressed, with solutions being sought through varietal improvement, prediction tools, and genomic studies.

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María Álvarez Xinzo de Limia has inaugurated this Friday a new edition of her double fair, ProLimia and Alimagro, a tandem aimed at highlighting the role of traditional trade and the agricultural sector of the region. The mayor of the town of Orense, Amador Díaz, highlighted the emblematic role of the potato in the region and recalled the role of Xinzo as a reference, "both at a national level and for the Portuguese friends who visit us." Díaz was committed to a sector that must continue training to face the challenges that lie ahead, such as irrigation, whose works have just begun in the region "and whose effects we will be fully aware of within five or six years." As an example of the good moment that the sector is going through in the region, the mayor highlighted the recent incorporation of 50 young people, in addition to a significant number of future professionals who are waiting for the moment to join. The president of the Ourense Provincial Council, Luis Menor, also ...

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