Forest days in Entre Ríos
Concordia Agricultural Experimental Station of INTA. Route 22 and vv. ff.
Dates and times:
Thursday, October 13 from 1:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Friday, October 14 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Face-to-face modality
Concordia Agricultural Experimental Station of INTA. Route 22 and vv. ff.
PROGRAM
Thursday, October 13: Dissertations in the INTA Concordia room
13.0 -13.30: Registration
13.30 -14.00: Welcome (authorities)
14.00 -15.00: Fire Management Panel
Rural Fire Management Network. Juan Manuel García Conde (Delta Consortium Coordinator)
Provincial Fire Management Plan of Entre Ríos. Mauro Rodríguez (Coordinator of Entre Ríos Provincial Fire Management Plan)
Strategies for fighting fires in the province of Corrientes. Roberto Rojas (Director of Forest Resources of Corrientes)
Information for comprehensive fire management. Nicolás Mari (INTA Cruz del Eje Agency, Prof. Gulich Institute and member of CONAE).
15.00 -15.20: Report on carbon survey in soils of productive systems in Argentina, with emphasis on Mesopotamia. Javier Gyenge (CONICET, INTA AER Tandil) and Mario Flores (Industrial Forest Development Directorate MAGyP)
15.20 - 15.40: Technological tools applied to forestry production. Matías Gaute (Directorate of Forestry Production, MAGyP).
15.40 - 16.00 Questions to the Panel
16.00 - 17.00: Break: coffee and poster exhibition / tour of stands
17.00 - 17.40: Biodiversity in planted forests of Mesopotamia and Delta: potential benefits for the forestry business. Natalia Fracassi (INTA Delta), Gustavo Zurita (IBS-Misiones National University-CONICET) and Julieta Filloy (IEGEBA, University of Buenos Aires-CONICET)
17.40 - 18.10: Potential of pure clones and hybrids of Eucalyptus for charcoal production. Natalia Raffaeli (National University of La Plata) and Juan Marcelo Gauna (National University of La Plata).
18.10 - 18.30: Certification of carbon bonds under the VSC standard, in UNITAN forest plantations. José Ignacio Otarán (UNITAN, Province of Chaco)
18.30 - 18.50: Evaluation of the economic and social impact of the pine and eucalyptus forestry chain, from a market perspective. Pedro Botta Olaciregui (Specialized consultant, Province of Corrientes)
18.50 - 19.00: Questions to the panel. Closing first day.
Friday, October 14: Field Day
8.30: Meeting of the EEA Concordia main building
Tour of batches and trials of the EEA Concordia, where the topics will be developed:
9.00 - 9.40: Ant control test with repellents and trap plants. Sergio Ramos (INTA Concordia), Carmen Hernández- Andrea Andorno (IMyZA, INTA Castelar).
9.40 -10.10: State-of-the-art technological tools for forest application. Juan Feldkamp and Emilio Montefinale (Feldkamp Studio, Gualeguaychú, Entre Ríos)
10.10 -10.20: Questions.
10.20 -11.00: Coffee
11.0 - 11.15: Risk prevention in forestry. Quadripartite Table of Entre Ríos.
11.15 -11.45: Results of the “Pre-commercial clone evaluation network”. Leonel Harrand (INTA Concordia)
11.45 - 12.15: Technological properties of eucalyptus clones. Matías Martínez (INTA Concordia).
12.15 - 12.30: Questions
12.30: Closing with lunch
Registration cost:
Overall: $3,000.
Students: $1500.
Reports:
INTA Concordia website: inta.gob.ar/concordia
Ing. María de los Ángeles García – garcia.mariaa@inta.gob.ar, Ing. Sergio Ramos – ramos.sergio@inta.gob.ar
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