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How are innovations being made in the monitoring, diagnosis and management of plant pests and diseases? What decision support platforms are being used at national level? And which smart traps are being applied in the field?

These are some of the questions that will be answered in the webinar “Innovation in pest and disease forecasting models”, promoted by the Centro Operativo e Tecnológico Hortofrutícola Nacional (COTHN), which will take place on July 19, starting at 2pm, and where these and many other topics will be discussed!

The director of InPP's Monitoring and Diagnostics Department, iLaria Marengo, will be one of the speakers at the webinar that will present the Xylella Monitoring platform, which is being developed by our team as part of the SNM_XylellaVt project - National System for Monitoring Insect Vectors of Xylella fastidiosa, funded by the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR).

Participation in the session is free, but prior registration is required here.

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The webinar will be held as part of the CALL4EARTH project, promoted by COTHN and funded by the PDR2020.

The Insectera Mobilizing Agenda continues at a good pace and the InFrass axis, led by InnovPlantProtect (InPP), is no exception!

The webinar New BioIndustry: “Agronomic valorization of organic insect fertilizer” will take place on July 24 at 11 a.m., bringing together the InPP, academia, insect-producing companies and government authorities to discuss the development and use of organic fertilizers generated from insects that will generate new product lines and innovative processes.

Sandra Correia, director of the Department for the Protection of Specific Crops at the InPP, will be one of the speakers at the webinar presenting the InFrass axis, led by the InPP.

Participation in the session is free, but prior registration is required.

Find out how we're helping to improve the health of plants and soil!

See the full program and register here.

InnovPlantProtect (InPP) and our partners Associação Portuguesa de Mobilização de Conservação do Solo (APOSOLO) and Reynolds Wine Growers are featured in two episodes produced as part of the series “Agriculture: Past, Present and Future”, promoted by the Futuragri project, led by INOVA+.

The first episode of the series “Agriculture: Past, Present and Future”, with the participation of Pedro Fevereiro, executive director of InPP, and Gabriela Cruz, president of the APOSOLO Board, shows the biological and digital solutions that have been developed by the collaborative laboratory and the new technologies that have been used to protect crops from pests and diseases.

The second episode, featuring Nuno Faria, a researcher in the InPP's pest and disease monitoring and diagnostics department, and Nélson Martins, head of viticulture and oenology at Reynolds Wine Growers, shows what the InPP's team of researchers has been doing to combat the green leafhopper, or cicadela, one of the main pests affecting vineyards in the Alentejo.

Watch the full first episode and second episode on the project's YouTube here.

Futuragri is a project funded by the European Union (EU) and led by INOVA+, which aims to inform and enlighten the national population about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and play a fundamental role in the agricultural panorama in the EU and particularly in Portugal.