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Institutional development · Industry collaboration · Chile

Curicó business people value UTalca's UNE project; farm plastics emerge in working groups

Universidad de Talca in Chile says business people in Curicó value its UNE project. Reducing plastic use in agriculture emerged as a theme in working groups of its Agrofuturo Centro Sur macroproject.

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Why it matters: Reducing plastic use in agriculture is among the themes that emerged in the working groups of Universidad de Talca's Agrofuturo Centro Sur macroproject.

Universidad de Talca said that business people from Curicó value its UNE project.

According to the university, reducing the use of plastics in agriculture was one of the subjects that came up in working groups of the Agrofuturo Centro Sur macroproject.

The university presented this as an example of how the territory can orient the applied research it carries out.

Editor’s view

Joseph Lopez, Collaboration Editor

Universidad de Talca reports that reducing agricultural plastics emerged in the Agrofuturo Centro Sur working groups, and it presents this as an example of the territory orienting its applied research.

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