Team:UPRM/fieldvisits
Camp Visits
Vesan Group
VESAN group is currently the first and only indoor, vertical farm in the Caribbean. At the moment, the farm is semi-automated: timing and lighting is automatic but pH and ppm measurements are taken daily, and nutrients are prepared three times per week. This model is working for VESAN, and Francisco Santana Montalvo, CEO of the Group, argues that there is no need to rush into further automation.
PRABIA
“The Puerto Rico Agricultural Biotechnology Industry Association (PRABIA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1995. PRABIA members include AgReliant Genetics, BASF, Bayer Puerto Rico-Crop Science, Corteva Agriscience – Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, Illinois Crop Improvement, RiceTec y Syngenta. It is the Association’s objective to strengthen the agricultural biotechnology ecosystem on the island and around the world, in light of the challenges facing global food production.
UPR Molecular Sciences Research Center
“The UPR Molecular Sciences and Research Center is a 152,000 sq. ft. advanced research facility with laboratories conducting basic and translational biomedical research in the areas of protein structure and dynamics, molecular biology, genomics, proteomics, bio-imaging, pharmacogenetics, and neurosciences. Inaugurated in 2011 it now houses over 300 researchers, students and technicians. The primary goal of the MSRC is to produce a significant increase in competitively funded forefront scientific research by scientists at UPR."
