XIV INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF RICE FOR LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN & 9th International Rice and Wheat Blast Conference

Conferencias Arroz 2024

Researcher at the Institute for Food and Agricultural Research and Technology (IRTA) since 1988. She leads the rice activities developed at the Ebro Experimental Station in Amposta. She is a member of the rice sectorial table and of several technical commissions, which deal with biotic and abiotic stresses affecting rice cultivation. She has been appointed expert in rice cultivation by the evaluation commission of the Spanish Plant Varieties Office, and of the crop networks of the Spanish Ministry of Agriculture. In the last 10 years she has collaborated in numerous projects of public and private calls with companies in the agri-food sector for the implementation of a sustainability program in rice cultivation in the Ebro delta, with success stories that are being exported to other crops and other producing areas. She is responsible and coordinator of innovation and transfer in rice cultivation at IRTA. Member evaluator of projects at state level, responsible for the reference day of rice cultivation of the annual plan of technology transfer of rice in Catalonia and has participated as a guest speaker at various national and international conferences.