USAL on its scientific and technological production for the agribusiness sector

Salamaq is a great showcase where projects from the Scientific Park can be disseminated.

At the agricultural Salamaq Fair, the facilities of the University of Salamanca held various exhibitions related to research work in the primary sector. Displays on a variety of topics could be attended, these included ‘Practical example of employing bio-fertilizers to improve the yield of crops’ and ´Endangered plants and seeds’ organized by Ciale, as well as ‘Collection of seeds from traditional highland and gorge cultivar’, all carried out in the Faculty of Agricultural Sciences, as published in the report of El Norte de Castilla.

In addition, Quantum, Neathea y Agrosmart Solutions that are settled in the Scientific Park, have organized permanent displays ‘ Technological solutions for the reduction of costs in the agribusiness sector’ ,’Cosmetics and bio-nutrition with donkey milk’ and ‘Developments for the management of water resources and the optimization of irrigation’, respectively.

Talks, colloquiums and worktables were also a part of our presence at Salamaq. Once more, we demonstrated close collaboration between our institution and the Council of Salamanca, this positively shows our capacity to transfer knowledge to agribusiness, which is an important sector in Castile and Leon.

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Tagged in: agribusiness, production, sector

Posted by Juan M. Corchado

Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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