2nd Meeting of the Proyecto Seda Committee
Sericulture experts from Latin America and Italy will meet from September 24 to 28 in Colombia within the framework of the Seda Project to discuss the actions of this project linked to the regional plan to promote the training, production, design and marketing of silk in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The agenda of the event will be held in Medellin on the 24th and 25th, at the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana. There the technical referents of the institutions that make up the Silk Project will discuss the launch of actions to promote sericulture and the aid mechanisms for silk producers, designers and artisans.
On the 26th, 27th and 28th the professionals will move to the Cauca region to continue working meetings and scheduled visits to the Corseda cooperative and farms of local producers and artisans. "This meeting is a continuation of the work of cooperation for development that we have been carrying out, who are part of the Silk Project," explained Ms. María Eugenia Suarez, responsible for the Interinstitutional Articulation of the Project. "Last year we met in Buenos Aires and this year we took the 2nd Meeting of Technical Referees to Colombia, to know the situation in which the Latin countries are in relation to the production and value added of silk," he said. the coordinator of the Project, Ing. Patricia Marino.
"The mission of this meeting will be to agree on an agenda of activities so that the final beneficiaries, small producers and sericulture entrepreneurs can strengthen their ventures," continued Eng. Marino.
The coordinator together with the technical referents from Colombia and the Faculty of Agronomy of the UBA will extend their stay to visit Guática from the Risaralda region, a town in the Colombian coffee growing area with a Seri cultural tradition in order to extend the dissemination of the Project and collect information about workers in this region.
Proyecto Seda has a co-financing of € 1,694,990 from the European Union through the ADELANTE International Cooperation and Association Program. It is coordinated by the National Institute of Industrial Technology of Argentina and 9 entities from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, Mexico and Italy participate.
The objective of the project is to transfer knowledge and experiences to achieve sustainable economic growth and improvement in the quality of life of rural populations in Latin American and Caribbean countries, from the production and cultivation of the silkworm, the later added value and optimization and innovation in technical and organizational capacities of the research centres that will be built in Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico.
