INTIA is a public corporation attached to the Department of Rural Development, Environment and Local Administration, integrated in the Public Business Corporation of Navarra (CPEN). INTIAs mission focuses on the transfer and innovation in the agri-food sector that will help to improve both the viability as its sustainability, as well as in the maintenance of a rural environment that is respectful of the environment and provides society with quality food. INTIA are pioneers in Spain in combining applied research with technology transfer, and they have work across the value chain with rigour and technical independent criteria, providing solutions since 1980.

Navarra was appointed a Case Study Region in RustWatch and INTIAs role is to coordinate and carry out activities in the region aiming at facilitating the interaction between stakeholders in the region and RustWatch acivities.

One major activity is to host and coordinate a yearly Case Study Region workshop and to organise open field days and other activities that promote the project, demonstrate outputs from the RustWatch project. Secondly to identify needs and ideas from stakeholders in the region that will feed directly into the activities and developments in RustWatch. 

In RustWatch we will facilitate the exchange of ideas, knowledge and technologies  between the 5 selected case study regions. Workpackage 3 will also accomplish a comparable case study describing and comparing innovative IPM strategies in each region. 

Website:  https://www.intiasa.es/

Contact Person: Alberto Lafarga, R & I projects coordinator |   alafarga@intiasa.es    | Tel +34 948 013 040

Time: 6 March 2019

Place: Intia Headquarter, Edificio Peritos - Avda. Serapio Huici 22. 31610 Villava (Navarra)

Topics and presenters

Alberto Lafarga, Innovation and Transfer Coordinator of INTIA, welcomed all participants and presented the RustWatch project. Jessica Joaquim, AgroScope, Switzerland presented the objectives of the workshop and the coordination with the other similar Case Study Regions: Denmark, Great Britain, Italy (Sicily and Puglia) and Switzerland (different cantons producing wheat). Jesús Goñi, Carmen Goñi, Jesús Zúñiga, Juan Antonio Lezaún and Amaia Caballero, all technicians of INTIA, presented respectively the different strategies used in Navarra for the control of the disease: varietal resistance; surveillance and monitoring; use of fungicides and alternative products; public and market initiatives; and training, information and awareness.

Public material from the meeting. Some material are in local language.

• Programa

• Introducción a Rustwatch / A. Lafarga

• Coordination of European case studies / J. Joaquim

• Estrategia 1: Resistancia varietal / J Goñi

• Estrategia 2: Vigilancia y monitoreo / C Goñi

  Estrategia 3: Fungicidas y productos alternativos / J. Zúñiga

• Estrategia 4: Iniciativas públicas y de mercado / J. A. Lezáun

• Estrategia 4:  Formación, información y sensibilización / A. Caballero

• Minute from the meeting

• Roadmap including goals, timeplan, activities and responsibilities until next year workshop 

Media:

News on INTIA homepage about the workshop (in spanish)

The open days in arable crops in INTIA, a great success of participation

More than two hundred professionals related to the sector have participated in technical demonstrations that have been held continuously for 36 years to show the trials in which, among other parameters, the effects of herbicides, the behavior of different varieties, or the different types of diseases and control strategies are analyzed.

The presentation of the trials and demos results is part of the Regional Program for the Control of Rust in developing wheat in the framework of the European project H2020 RustWatch. This program is fundamentally based on the choice of varieties resistant to yellow rust (GENVCE variety trials), the monitoring of the evolution of this disease in the campaign (AGROIntegra collaborative Warning Station) and the use of fungicide treatment programs (trials INTIA in 2019). At the same time it is planned that in 2020 and 2021 INTIA will carry out several tests with alternative products to fungicides under the RustWatch project.

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Record of cereal production in wetlands compared to almost historical minimum yields in dry areas - 19 August 2019

This event is part of the Regional Program for the Control of Rust in developing wheat in the framework of the European project H2020 RustWatch. This program is fundamentally based on the choice of varieties resistant to yellow rust (GENVCE variety trials), the monitoring of the evolution of this disease in the campaign (AGROIntegra collaborative Warning Station) and the use of fungicide treatment programs (trials INTIA in 2019). At the same time it is planned that in 2020 and 2021 INTIA will carry out several tests with alternative products to fungicides under the RustWatch project.

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Estrategias para el control de la Roya Taller Caso de Estudio en Navarra 3 de marzo de 2020

Topics and presenters:

La nueva directora gerente de INTIA, Natalia Bellostas, se encargó de dar la bienvenida al grupo de asistentes y dio paso a la técnica de INTIA, Nerea Arias, para presentar el proyecto RustWatch. A continuación, Jessica Joaquim y Valerie Holzer, de AgroScope, presentaron los resultados obtenidos en los primeros talleres de cada estudio de caso (Dinamarca, Gran Bretaña, España, Italia y Suiza). Más tarde, Juan Antonio Lezáun, especialista en protección de cultivos del INTIA, presentó el caso de estudio en Navarra y Julián Rodríguez, de la Universidad de Aarhus (en representación de los coordinadores del proyecto), explicó el estado de la roya en Europa. A continuación, Jesús Zúñiga, Nerea Arias, Jesús Goñi y Juan Lezáun del INTIA presentaron varias estrategias utilizadas en Navarra para controlar la enfermedad: control químico, métodos alternativos, resistencia varietal y mezclas de cultivos. Finalmente, el grupo de asistentes trabajó en pequeños grupos para contribuir con sus conocimientos y experiencias. Discutieron los factores no biológicos del manejo de la roya en la región y cómo interactúan entre ellos, para ver las posibilidades reales que existen en la región para reducir el uso de fungicidas.

Public material from the meeting. Some material are in local language.

• Programa

• Breve presentacion proyecto / N. Arias

• Casos de Estudio Europeos / J. Joaquim y V. Holzer

• Caso de estudio en Navarra / J. Lezaún

• Situación Roya Europa e implicaciones en España / J. Rodriguez

• Control Quimico / J. Zuñiga

• Metodos_alternativos / J. Zuñiga y N. Arias

• Implicación varietal / J. Goñi

• Mezclas de variedades / J.Goñi

• Conclusiones / Isabel Gárriz Ezpeleta

• Roadmap including goals, time plan, activities and responsibilities until next years workshop 

Web press release:

• INTIA Press release after the workshop

Twitter

• https://twitter.com/IntiaSa/status/1234848571469574147
• https://twitter.com/IntiaSa/status/1234862067552784385
• https://twitter.com/IntiaSa/status/1234870441862475778