{"id":21695,"date":"2026-02-12T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=21695"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:33:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:33:30","slug":"inpp-present-at-the-xvi-national-corn-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/inpp-marca-presenca-no-xvi-congresso-nacional-do-milho\/","title":{"rendered":"InPP attends the XVI National Maize Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"

InnovPlantProtect (InPP) was present at the XVI National Maize Congress, which also included the 2nd Meeting of Cereal Crops, organized by ANPROMIS, in collaboration with ANPOC and AOP. The event took place on February 11 and 12 at CNEMA in Santar\u00e9m, bringing together national and international experts to discuss the sector's main challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ant\u00f3nio Saraiva, Executive Director of InPP, took part in the panel \u201cCereal Production: What technical challenges are we facing?\u201d, where he highlighted the decisive role of research in responding to the emerging challenges of cereal production, in a context of growing demographic, environmental and economic pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cI'm proud that today, after seven years, we have 28 researchers working full-time on this topic, 12 of whom have PhDs, with experience in crops such as rice, which has been central to our work,\u201d he said, emphasizing the multifunctional and international nature of InPP's teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also pointed out that the work being done extends beyond rice to include maize, through ongoing projects and new operational groups focused on emerging crop problems. Among the initiatives in the spotlight is an application to Horizon Europe focused on developing improved and more resilient varieties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Ant\u00f3nio Saraiva, anticipation is the key to success: \u201cThese challenges can't wait too long to be discussed or resolved. The sooner we anticipate the issues, the easier, more effective and more economical the solutions will be.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a debate that also marked the 40th anniversary of Portugal's integration into Europe and the role of the Common Agricultural Policy in the cohesion of the European Union, one message was clear across the board: \u201cClimate change is the biggest threat we have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

InPP thus reaffirms its commitment to innovation, science and the development of sustainable solutions for the future of cereal crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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O InnovPlantProtect (InPP) esteve presente no XVI Congresso Nacional do Milho, que integrou tamb\u00e9m o 2.\u00ba Encontro das Culturas Cereal\u00edferas, organizado pela ANPROMIS, em colabora\u00e7\u00e3o com a ANPOC e a AOP. O evento decorreu nos dias 11 e 12 de fevereiro, no CNEMA, em Santar\u00e9m, reunindo especialistas nacionais e internacionais para debater os principais desafios […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,222,281,271],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-destaque","category-noticia","category-ultimas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21715,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21695\/revisions\/21715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}