The Mexican Avocado Intellectual Society (SIAM) will hold the First Mexican Avocado Congress between October 25 and 27 of this year in the Presidente Juarez Faculty of Agrobiology. This was confirmed by the president of the organizing committee, MC Heladio Santacruz Ulibarri, at a press conference.
Santacruz Alibarri told the representatives of the different media that there would be three keynote speeches during the congress (one per day), three symposiums, 60 lectures, field practices, an exhibition hall, and various cultural events.
There will also be pre-congress courses in Nutrition and Biological Control; three lectures on Phytosanitation, Nutrition and Diagnosis of production by state, coordinated by Armando Equihua Martinez and Edith Estrada Venegas; a symposium under the coordination of Prometeo Sanchez Garcia on fertility and fertilization of soils, nutrition, physiology and the bio-stimulation of avocado, as well as a discussion of phytosanitary issues.
He also said they had producers, technicians, official agencies, private initiatives and entrepreneurs, teachers, students, service providers, marketers, industrializers, and avocado scholars, among others, lined up to participate in the Congress.
Heladio Santacruz said the avocado had consolidated more and more in the world market due to the commercial demand, a situation that forces the universities of the country, official organisations, and private initiatives, to change the production strategies and phytosanitary management, so that the country can continue exporting this product of great quality. Last season, exports of this product amounted to one million tons.
Source: cambiodemichoacan.com.mx