Innovation: The work of the Junta de Extremadura to combat the seca disease

The General Director of Sustainability of the Extremadura Ministry of Agriculture, Germán Puebla, explained in AGROPOPULAR - broadcast on January 31 - the work they are developing in relation to the dry disease that affects the holm oaks. The Junta is working on several lines for the prospecting of the Extremadura dehesa. This project began in 2012 with the exploitation of 160,000 hectares and now they want to complete the work on the entire dehesa. In the first line of work, they will analyze all the dry disease outbreaks in Extremadura. According to Puebla, "in 2012 we found an outbreak every 68 hectares and now we will see if these outbreaks have advanced and how they have advanced, so that we can fight it knowing where they are going, what route they are taking, and how we can stop it." In 2012, we found a dry disease outbreak every 68 hectares and "now we will see if these outbreaks have advanced." The second is a genetic research line, where they will work with those ...