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Murciano Research Institute and Agricultural and Food Development (imide), with the participation of the University of Murcia, Novedades Agrícolas SA and Fecoam develops the Life-Aquemfree project, which aims to provide producers of the region an alternative, economical technique and ecological, to completely eliminate pesticide residues containing wastewater generated in their farms.
The Director General of Agrifood Innovation, Juana Mulero, this morning visited a farm vegetables outdoors in Los Rizaos, Torre Pacheco, where it has installed the first pilot water decontamination plant through proper solar photocatalysis to an actual installation, for monitoring and study the functioning of this initiative.
The Torreblanca estate IMIDA in Torre Pacheco has a pilot plant 'Aquemfree' from June 2015, and now the project is to farms with agricultural activity to show the sector the advantages of this system and its technical, environmental viability and economic.
The project, called 'Decontamination farm wastewater plant protection products from mopping, rinsing and cleaning, using solar photocatalysis' and is funded by the Life program of the European Commission, includes the installation of pilot plants in three points Region, an estate of lemon trees in Santomera, exploitation greenhouse vegetable Aguilas and peach farm in Cieza.
The plant completely removes residues of pesticides containing wastewater produced on farms by remaining in containers and treatment tanks, rinse tanks after use, cleaning machinery and equipment, among others, with an innovative team solar photocatalysis installed on farms, and solve a European problem, especially in the Mediterranean region.
Mulero Juana explained that "this project comes to give a real solution for managing pesticide residues, as the Life-Aqueemfree system can provide a solution compatible with the environment and is economically viable."
Source: CARM
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