More than a thousand participants will move discussions between presenters, scientists, researchers, academics, entrepreneurs and producers who carry ancestral knowledge, confirms the text distributed to this news agency.
“Thematic axes have to do with genetic resources, genetics and biotechnology, production systems, innovation and the quinoa agro-industry, health and nutrition, gastronomy, quality control and marketing, as well as public policies,” informs Organizing Committee Chairman, David Sauride.
The engineer added that there will also be room for knowledge and ancestral knowledge, bearing in mind that this is a crop that has a lot of cultural roots in the knowledge generated by the producers.
He stressed that the discussions will also address issues of regional nature and cultural identity, primary and technological production and transformation, and food and gastronomy.
The professor also indicated at Tomas Frias University in San Luis Potosi that they will analyze biomarkers as a way of being able to produce quinoa naturally.
“So far we already have 800 confirmed participants,” commented the engineer, “and we calculate that we will reach about 900 participants among those present, and as exhibitors we have about 200 confirmed speakers already.
According to Rural and Land Development, under the theme “Quinoa, the current and future food of the world”, the event constitutes a space for exchanging knowledge and information and disseminating scientific and technical developments.
Another of its objectives is to transfer regional experiences and public policies that promote this crop, as well as to contribute to comprehensive and sustainable innovations to enhance the production chain of this product and related species.
The opening will take place in the Víctor Paz Estensoro Theater and the discussions will take place in the Faculty of Agricultural and Animal Sciences of the Autonomous University of Tomás Frías, where 10 classrooms will be installed for more than a hundred simultaneous exhibitions in different languages.
The 8th World Congress will conclude with a technological visit to quinoa farms certified in Potosi by the National Institute of Agricultural and Forestry Innovation.
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