belonging Department of Agroecology Center for Scientific Research (CSIC), one with that name in Spain, under the scientific direction of Professor Antonio Bello Pérez research for more than 16 years will be closed imminently, as recently confirmed in writing.
Professor Antonio Bello Pérez, FAO consultant, member of the Montreal Protocol is one of the leading researchers in providing alternatives to fumigation chemicals in agriculture worldwide. Other international projects has been definitive contribution to the replacement of methyl bromide, a substance used for disinfection of agricultural land and has demonstrated is directly responsible for the destruction of the ozone layer as well as being carcinogenic.
Among the projects of the Department of Agroecology highlights have been an alternative to methyl bromide use. It has got to stop being used annually 60,000 tons of bromide in the world (about 5,000 tonnes in Spain), simply replacing it biodesinfección, based on an organic matter eg beet vinasse, which any farmer can purchase at a price of 140 euros per hectare of cultivation, while the methyl iodide used in the disinfection and even more carcinogenic than methyl bromide at a cost of 8,000 € per hectare .
According to Antonio Bello, directly linked to the farming sector in Spain and founding partner of SEAE current vice president, the continuity of research being carried out by the Department of Agroecology and applicable to Organic farming is not considered in the guidelines of the CSIC. During these years for this Department will not has been called one place, why researchers should continue in other departments and can not continue with the research and advances in favor of organic agriculture and non-toxic criteria. Nor are no plans for organic line because the line labeled Sustainable Agriculture in the CSIC is in practice an investigation to conventional agriculture that has applied the non-selective herbicide such as glyphosate.
SEAE regrets that now that they had taken positive steps to support research in agriculture and livestock production in our country, which adopted support a Thematic Network in Ecological Agriculture from the Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA), based on a claim and a proposal drawn from SEAE, is a step backwards in this field and decided to close the department of Agroecology , a center that has helped provide scientific support to the practice of sustainable agriculture at present, organic farming.
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