The Cenicaña Experimental Station opened its doors to pre-congress visitors. ISST 2025 with a day that demonstrated, in the field and in the classroom, how applied science and innovation are transforming the sugarcane agroindustry toward sustainability and productivity.
What do we experience during the day?
During the technical tour, attendees visited nine seasons that integrate research, extension, and ready-to-adopt technologies. Some of the key aspects shared with visitors were: digital agriculture, efficient nutrition and fertilization, irrigation and agronomic monitoring, soil management, featured varieties, field technologies, harvesting, manufacturing, and the transfer strategies from the SCTT to accelerate technological adoption with physical, digital and interactive materials.
📌 Check out the summaries of each of the 9 stations (in English) here:
www.cenicana.org/apps/dl/precongreso_issct_2025/
The 9 seasons…
- Genetic improvement and molecular biology (GENETIC IMPROVEMENT AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY)
- Milestones in varietal development (VARIETAL DEVELOPMENT MILESTONES)
- Extension and transfer strategies for sustainability (EXTENSION AND TRANSFER STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABILITY)
- Smart Factory Solutions: Digital Tools for the Sugarcane Industry (SMART FACTORY SOLUTIONS: DIGITAL TOOLS FOR THE SUGARCANE INDUSTRY)
- Digital innovation applied in agriculture (APPLIED DIGITAL INNOVATION IN AGRICULTURE)
- Climate-Smart Sugarcane Agriculture: Soils and Climate (SUGARCANE SOIL/CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE)
- Tools for precision agriculture (TOOLS FOR PRECISION AGRICULTURE)
- SmartCane Operations Center (SMARTCANE OPERATIONS CENTER)
- Full utilization of sugarcane by-products (UNLOCKING THE FULL POTENTIAL OF SUGARCANE BY-PRODUCTS)
Why does it matter?
The pre-congress in Cenicaña is a meeting point to share technical evidence, contrast methodologies and align efforts research + extension with a view to a sustainable agribusiness, competitive and resilient to climate variability.
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Number of attendees: +130 | Location: Cenicaña
