First was Sergio Campero. He looked at the production of lettuce in cheap, easy-to-assemble greenhouses made with plastic and PVC tubes, comparing traditional soil preparation and double-digging. He found that double-digging the soil plus using the little "hoop houses" was much, much more effective than the traditional planting technique.
Photo: Sergio explains his experiment in front of the university director and a panel of his professors.
Then came Leyla Yujra. She researched germination techniques for a new crop in the area, stevia (Stevia rebaudiana), a natural sweetener. She found that plants produced under a tarp raised on poles with compost for fertilizer was much more effective than other techniques, such as production in a greenhouse, or with chicken manure for fertilizer.
Photo: Director Father Freddy, Agronomy department director José Luis Beltrán, new graduate Leyla Yujra, Dr. Johann Krug from the German Development Agency GTZ, and Jesús Sanez, head of FONADAL projects for the Nor Yungas province.
Congratulations to these two new graduates!
And thank you to South Dakota State University/Larsen Foundation, and to FONADAL, for helping with the Thesis Bootcamp that made the graduation of these students possible.
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