December 17, 2024, 11:10 AM
December 17, 2024, 11:10 AM
On the way to celebrating its 50th anniversary, the Tropical Agricultural Research Center (CIAT), dependent on the Government, received the implementation of three new tools on its premises at the Saavedra Agricultural Experimental Station that will help modernize and improve its services.
The current governor Mario Aguilera officially handed over the Drinking Water System for CIAT, which will allow quality water, improve productivity and provide a better work environment to all those who do research at the experimental station. The investment amount allocated for this project is Bs 218,128.
As part of this visit, the authority also delivered new laboratory equipment with advanced technology that will allow cutting-edge research to be carried out in the agricultural sector, allowing modernization and advances in research that will strengthen the country’s capacity to produce high-quality seeds. , contributing to the development of the agricultural sector in Bolivia.
“The CIAT has a high value for the department, but above all for the productive sector, several new pieces of equipment have been delivered, some of them unprecedented in the territory in the search of providing the service that our population demands, valuing our soils and getting to know them. even better in situations of climatological crisis like the ones we are experiencing,” said Aguilera.
Finally, the acting governor, together with directors and other authorities of the institution, took a tour of the station, where the irrigation systems that will be used in the 1st version of EXPOCIAT 2025 were presented. He demonstrated the machines that carry out this work for planting CIAT products.
For his part, Héctor Sandoval, director of CIAT, highlighted this new irrigation system that will allow the station to produce 100 tons of basic seeds and represents a significant advance in productive capacity.
