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In order to improve the economy of farmers in the Huallaga Valley this Tuesday May 3 the PERU-Hub Peruvian Extension and Research Utilization project was presented by the La Molina National Agrarian University and the Development Agency US International USAID in alliance with the Universities of Oklahoma OU Utah State USU Purdue and the Center for Tropical Research CIAT of Colombia.During the launch ceremony the regional governor Pedro Bogarn Vargas pointed out that the region has productive leaders and that it is necessary to spread agricultural technology that has given great results. That is why he highlighted this initiative which seeks to improve the economy of farmers in the Huallaga Valley by building a knowledge base in tropical agriculture and transferring generated technologies.San Martin has productive leaders what we need is the massification of the technology of our leaders and that the State does not understand he pointed out during said activity that brought together representatives of different public and private institutions dedicated to the Agriculture sector. Likewise he reported that the San Martn Regional Government is promoting productive projects in different provinces of the region in value chains such as corn cocoa coffee and agricultural activity with innovations validated in the Calzada Livestock Farm. We are willing to offer a platform for the regional government so that from there you can make history in the region stressed the highest regional authority. Precisely to show part of what has been developed the director of the USAID Peru Mission Jene Thomas and the rector of the La Molina National Agrarian University Amrico Guevara Prez accompanied by the governor toured the facilities of the Ahuashiyacu Fishing Station to learn about the momentum that The regional government has been giving the aquaculture sector through for example the production of native fish from the Amazon. In addition they visited the facilities of the Ahuashiyacu agroforestry nursery where 6 million agroforestry seedlings are produced this year to repopulate the degraded areas of the region.It should be noted that the project contemplates the creation of a Technology Center Hub in the Pucayacu Experimental Fund headquarters of the Regional Institute for Jungle Development in Tarapoto which will serve as a model for the transfer and use of advanced technologies in the areas of agricultural production integrated production systems post-harvest management food processing capacity building extension and entrepreneurship.PERU-Hub is the result of a cooperative effort that began in 2020 with the presentation of an international funding contest sponsored by the US government entitled Program Bringing Research to Impact for Development Global Engagement and Utilization BRIDGE-U from Usaid. The process continued with the preparation of the final proposal and the granting of a fund of 15 million dollars in 2021 for a period of five years.
