Students and teachers of the University Technical Degree Course in Production of Aromatic Plants (TUPPA) of the Faculty of Tourism and Urban Planning visited the Forest Nursery of the INTA Villa Dolores Experimental Station.
The activity took place in the fields of Labor Practice III, Plant Therapeutics, Plant Morphology and Edaphology.
Ing. Daniel Suarez, gave a speech on the crops and experiments that are developed in these facilities and linking them to the current situation and the demand of regional producers and their marketing.
The planted trials were observed, as well as the nursery production. Then they visited the LEMARC SRL production plant where they followed the phases of the production circuit: soil preparation, multiplication, crop rotation, weeding, fertilization, irrigation, harvesting, drying. In the processing shed they were able to witness the threshing, destemming, cleaning, selection and packaging phases. They were able to learn about the machinery used in large-scale production, with particular attention to the use of the wind tunnel for cleaning and quality selection. In addition, the talk commented on the current reality of the sector, the strengths and weaknesses of production and marketing, the costs and opportunities that arise today.
The students had an activity plan framed in the different subjects that participated in this activity. In this way, during both stops, they collected weeds, insects, soil samples, compiling checklists for structures and GAPs (good agricultural practices), irrigation systems, among other activities.
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