AGROSAVIA receives the Scientific Excellence Award in Spain

• This recognition was given by Fontagro to the project °AHoRa—The App for Musaceae family producers, carried out by AGROSAVIA in partnership with IDIAF of the Dominican Republic and INIA and Universidad de Piura of Peru.

• This project has trained more than 1,227 people and benefited 10,745 producers and technicians in three countries: Colombia, Peru, and the Dominican Republic.

 

Santa Marta, Magdalena. June 8, 2023. Within the framework of the XVIII Annual Technical Project Monitoring Workshop of Fondo Regional de Tecnología Agropecuarias – FONTAGRO in Madrid, Spain, the °AHoRa project, executed by AGROSAVIA through the Caribia Research Center and the Central Headquarters in the departments of Magdalena and La Guajira, received the Fontagro 2023 Scientific Excellence Award.

This award was given by the Board of Directors and the Technical Administrative Secretariat of Fontagro and recognizes the best project and the team of researchers and institutions that have demonstrated scientific excellence in carrying out the activities and meeting the objectives of the projects financed by this fund.

Martha Marina Bolaños, Ph.D. of AGROSAVIA and leader of the project thanked Fontagro for this award and pointed out that "this is a recognition to the long work carried out by the research teams of IDIAF of the Dominican Republic, INIA and Universidad de Piura of Peru, and AGROSAVIA through its research center Caribia and its Central Headquarters. We have committed to successfully completing this project with great effort and dedication."

 

 

 

°AHoRa is a free-to-use web and mobile phone (smartphone) App that allows quantifying the potential rate of emission of leaves from a banana plantation, optimal harvest date, nutrient doses that need to be applied in crop fertilization and its water needs, as well as estimating bunch weight and crop yield.

The pro version of the desktop application can be downloaded at the following link https://ahora.agrosavia.co/ or through the QR code to be downloaded to a mobile phone (smartphone).

The °AHoRa project was born in Fontagro's 2019 Call "From Science to Impact: innovations for climate-smart agriculture through AgroTech solutions in Latin America and the Caribbean," which provided the resources to finance this initiative.