This Friday, a technical cooperation agreement was signed between the Republic of South Korea and Nicaragua, to increase productivity in rice, soybean and bean crops. The agreement will have a term of 36 more months and 80,000 dollars per year will be allocated… Claudia Cárdenas, Co-director of the Nicaraguan Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA), explained to TV News on Channel 2 that research and validation of Korean varieties will be carried out in the Development Centers and in the production units of farmers…
… OF GREAT IMPORTANCE… Park Ho Ki, Director of the Kopia center expressed that the new varieties of rice, soybeans and beans, with the aim of increasing self-sufficiency, reducing imports and increasing productivity with new technologies in Nicaragua… This technology transfer will be provided to the producing families, with the purpose of increasing the production of these important items… “In the case of rice, new varieties will be introduced, in order to validate them and increase production, which currently guarantees 75% of national consumption. With soy we are going to be focused on the dissemination of already validated varieties and planting, distance and fertilization techniques”, said the head of INTA…
