The research Group IRRIGATION, AGRONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT is integrated by researchers belonging to the RAMA group of the Agrifood Research and Technology Centre of Aragón (Grupo RAMA, CITA, Gobierno de Aragón) and the Soil and Water Department of the Aula Dei Experimental Station of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas), located at the Aula Dei Campus in Zaragoza and the University of Zaragoza.
The group is multidisciplinary with focus in core activities that have led to stable collaborations between group members to produce scientific and technological information in the soil-water-crop-atmosphere interface leading to a more competitive, efficient and sustainable irrigated agriculture.
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- Welcome and evaluation day of the Doctoral Program in Agricultural and Natural Sciences of the University of Zaragoza
On December 13, 2024, the Doctoral Program in Agricultural and Natural Sciences of the University of Zaragoza held its annual Welcome and Evaluation Day in the Degree Hall of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. The program is coordinated by Professor Asunción Usón, and researcher Lola Quílez (CITA) is part of[…] - Second meeting of the Spanish Local Platform of the LIFE CLINMED-FARM Project
The second meeting of the Spanish Local Platform of the LIFE CLINMED-FARM Project took place on 24 October 2024 at the CITA facilities.The meeting consisted of several parts. The first one included a presentation of the Project and its two case studies (located in Spain and Italy), followed by an[…] - The Aragonese Agri-Food Alliance awards the Huesca Polytechnic School (UNIZAR)
The “Alianza Agroalimentaria Aragonesa” awards aim to recognize the contribution of people and entities to the creation and dissemination of values related to food production and the rural world, at a national or international level. They are awarded in three different categories: Agri-Food Research and Innovation, Agri-Food Industrialization and Marketing[…] - Ramón Isla participates in the Technological and Business Forum “Technological challenges and solutions in agriculture”
The SAMCA Chair of Technological Development and the Aragon Engineering Research Institute (I3A), in collaboration with the Chamber of Commerce of Zaragoza and the Confederation of Businessmen of Aragon (CEOE-Aragon), organized a new Technological and Business Forum on September 19. This event was entitled “Technological Challenges and Solutions in Agriculture.”[…] - Not just science: it is holiday season
In the RAMA group we are involved in research and also in life. The other day we got together to cook a wonderful tomato soup. During one of the SMARTWATER project trips to Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, we enjoyed a wonderful tomato soup in the restaurant of the Sesto Senso[…] - Four MSc students supervised by RAMA members defend their theses at CIHEAM Zaragoza
In the last few days, four students from the “Sustainable Water Management and Governance in Natural and Agricultural Environments” MSc programme of the Centre for Advanced Mediterranean Agronomic Studies (CIHEAM) in Zaragoza have defended their thesis. The students have spent ten months at the Aula Dei Experimental Station and CITA[…] - The RAMA group celebrates the last seminar of the season remembering Antonio Martínez-Cob
The 2024 seminar series comes to a close this Friday, July 19. These days marks the tenth anniversary of the passing away of Antonio Martínez-Cob, Scientific Researcher of CSIC specialized in crop water requirements. The seminar that closes the season remembers Antonio’s work through the presentations of his last three[…] - The RAMA group participated in the 10th National Symposium on the control and recovery of soil degradation
Researchers from the RAMA group belonging to CITA of the Government of Aragon have presented four communications to the “10th National Symposium on the control and recovery of soil degradation”, which was held in Burgos between June 24 and 27, 2024. The congress was organized by the University of Burgos[…] - Tempero, the TV program, covers the technical visit of the XIX meeting of the RUENA network to Ejea de los Caballeros
On April 25 and 26, the XIX meeting of the RUENA network (Network on the efficient use of nitrogen in agriculture) was held. The event, coordinated by Ramón Isla (CITA), brought together about seventy researchers from all over Spain and was held at the CIHEAM Zaragoza facilities. The technical visit[…] - Annual Meeting of the SINTMED Project: Sustainable Intensification of Mediterranean field crops
On March 21, 2024, the coordinated project “Sustainable Intensification of Mediterranean Field Crops” (SINTMED) (PID2021-126343OB) held its annual coordination meeting. The project is being financed by the State Research Agency (AEI) of the Government of Spain, within the call for “Projects of Knowledge Generation 2021”. The meeting took place at[…]