Laura Torguet

Laura Torguet Pomar is an Agricultural Engineer from the ETSEA, University of Lleida (1997). He has worked for five years as a Plant Defense Technician (ADV) at the Albatàrrec Cooperative (1999-2004), being responsible for the phytosanitary protection of the different crops of the cooperative as well as the quality of the fruit. He has also worked as a commercial technician in the company Agromòdol (2004-2009), dedicated to the trade of phytosanitary products. Agromòdol worked as a field manager for some of his clients and led the commercial part of the cooperatives in the area. Since 2009, he has been working as a Support Technician in Technology Transfer and Fruit Growing Advice at IRTA. He has been responsible for the Transfer of the Fruit Growing Program, and at the same time was responsible for the phytosanitary work on the fruit farms of the Experimental Station. For the past eight years he has worked in almond cultivation technology as a specialist in crop pests and diseases. He has participated in different R & D & I projects both in Spain and in Europe, and also at an international level. He has participated in various international nuts conferences. Also, it has realized and realizes contracts with the sector of the Spanish dried fruit and projects with the national and autonomic administration. He participates in the advice of the crop in the majority of big projects that are realizing in the last years in the sector of the almond tree, so much in Spain as in Portugal. He gives numerous lectures for technicians and farmers in the dried fruit sector.

She has participated in national and international projects. She is the author and co-author of technical, scientific and popular articles. He has executed more than 90 contracts with the phytosanitary ware sector for the cultivation of almonds and has given numerous technical conferences in Spain and abroad.