Second Workshop of the Colombian Forage Network CIAT-Agrosavia.
Between September 5th and 6th, the second meeting of the Colombian Forage Network was held at the Agrosavia Nataima Research Center located in Espinal, Tolima, where the progress of the CIAT-Agrosavia project was presented. The Tropical Forages team at CIAT presented the Breeding Program and an overview of project activities, such as the agronomic evaluation of new forage germplasm, identification of forage materials and management practices for adaptation to drought and waterlogging in low and medium tropics, and the economic evaluation of the materials assessed, among others.
By: José Luis Urrea.
Likewise, the CIAT Data and Research Methods Group presented the prototype of the Octopus program for tracking research project data, which seeks to store all information, documents, data, and metadata; manage the workflow and standardize and centralize data collected within the framework of the CIAT-Agrosavia project.
The workshop had the participation of experts in agronomy, animal science, animal production, plant breeding, plant physiology, soils, molecular biology, chemistry, and socio-economics, both from CIAT and the Agrosavia Research Centers nationwide, and is a continuation of the first meeting held in early April of this year at the Agrosavia Turipaná Research Center in Cereté, Córdoba.