The Government of the Azores financed the travel to the Azores of a South African technician specialized in the production of proteas who is going to be in the Region till Friday to guarantee support to the local producers.
With the promotion of the visit, the Executive wants to strengthen in an effective way the attendance, which already happens since 1998, of the producers and their organizations, giving them directions and updating of knowledges on the process of the culture of proteas, guaranteeing, simultaneously, the vulgarization and rural extension of the activity.
The program of the dislocation coordinates meetings and technical explanations, visits to the explorations of the producers of proteas and to the experimentation and demonstration fields of the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Forestry.
The technician Gerhard Málan, expert of the culture of proteas in the whole world, gives technical support to the floriculture in the Azores since 1998, in annual visits promoted by the Regional Secretariat for Agriculture and Forestry.
Taking into account the specific character of the culture of proteas, the Government promotes regularly this type of meetings, guaranteeing the exchange and updating of knowledges between producers, technicians and associative leaders.