Written by admin on Jun 10th, 2009 | Filed under:
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The department of Ayacucho is one that registers the highest levels of child malnutrition, and poverty and food insecurity, two of its main causes. The sector most affected are children living in rural areas, which saw their situation seriously aggravated by the political violence experienced in the 1980s and 1990s. Given this context, CHIRAPAQ developed from the 1990 proposal Improving Nutritional Products based on Native and Local.
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Written by admin on Jun 10th, 2009 | Filed under:
Modern Agriculture
Tuesday December 5, at 18.00 am in the University of the Republic, celebrating a century of the first edition of the General Agriculture, written by Teodoro Alvarez, Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries organizing this event.
Teodoro Alvarez was born in Saint Lucia, Canelones department. He graduated from surveyor in Montevideo in 1873, and agricultural engineer at the Agronomic Institute of Paris in 1881. Its extensive career took him to go into all issues relating to agriculture, health problems and their control, provision of seeds, the installation of the first Agricultural Station, was a teacher in Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil and has also many outstanding fees.
He was author of important publications and member of numbers and correspondent for several national scientific societies and abroad.
His work is