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First day Wednesday May 25, 2022

Schedule	Theme	Relator
07:45 - 08:15	ACCREDITATION
08:15 - 08:45	WELCOME WORDS
-	Andrés Canales L. / President CDAAJ Alejandro Velázquez S. / CEO SADER José Luis Bustamante F. / President Aneberries
08:45 - 09:15	Current situation of blueberries and challenges in the short and medium term	Rigoberto Guerrero placeholder image CEO Hortifrut Mexico
09:15 - 09:45	The place of blueberries from Mexico in the North American market	Miguel Angel Curiel Vice President and General Manager-Mexico at Driscoll's
09:45 - 10:00	ROUND OF QUESTIONS
10:00 - 11:15	COFFEE BREAK
11:15 - 12:15	How to create optimal conditions for blueberry roots in the substrate?	Gerardo Nunez Ph.D. Horticultural Sciences University of Florida
12:15 - 13:15	Strategies to optimize firmness in blueberry fruits	Jorge Retamales Ing. Agr. MS. Ph.D. International Researcher and Consultant
13:15 - 13:30	ROUND OF QUESTIONS
13:30 - 15:00	LUNCH
15:00 - 15:45	Biofertilization in blueberries	Jose Flores Felix Postdoctoral Research Scientist at Beira Interior University
15:45 - 16:30	The current phytosanitary challenges of blueberries in Mexico	Jose Ramon Saucedo Phytosanitary Scientist Driscoll's
16:30 - 17:30	COFFEE BREAK
17:30 - 18:15	Basics of growing blueberries in containers	Raul Olivares Ing. Agr. University of Chile Production manager Blueberry Specialist
18:15 - 18:45	ROUND OF QUESTIONS
18:45 - 19:00	CLOSING OF THE DAY

Second day Thursday May 26, 2022

Schedule	Theme	Relator
08:15 - 08:45	ACCREDITATION
08:45 - 09:45	The importance of blueberry nutrition by phenological stage	Gerardo Nunez Ph.D. Horticultural Sciences University of Florida
09:45 - 10:30	Blueberry nutrition in pots: experiences in Mexico	Flavio Lara Agricultural Director Expoberries
10:30 - 11:45	COFFEE BREAK
11:45 - 12:45	Potassium nutrition and use of nutritional supplements in blueberries	Juan Hirzel Ing. Agr. MS. Ph.D. Researcher INIA International Consultant
12:45 - 13:30	ROUND TABLE	Jorge Retamales Ing. Agr. MS. Ph.D. International Researcher and Consultant
		Gerardo Nunez Ph.D. Horticultural Sciences University of Florida
		Flavio Lara Agricultural Director Expoberries
		Juan Hirzel Ing. Agr. MS. Ph.D. Researcher INIA International Consultant
13:30 - 13:40	CLOSING OF THE DAY

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Juan Hirzel

The main research area of Dr. Juan Hirzel is soil fertility, nutrition and plant biostimulation. As a leading researcher at the Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA) and as a professor of the Doctorate in Agricultural Sciences of the universities of Talca and Concepción in Chile, he has collaborated in research projects for the development of methodologies for sectorized management of farms, application of techniques of multispectral image analysis to optimize crops, among others. He has also developed tools for decision making in the organic production of blueberries for export, as well as work on the effects of organic fertilizers on the vegetative, nutritional and productive parameters in blueberries.

Jorge Retamales

For more than 35 years he has been dedicated to research into the physiology of minor fruits, particularly blueberries, and has participated in breeding programs. He was deputy director of the Strawberry working group of the International Society of Horticultural Sciences (ISHS), in which he represented Chile for 12 years, and president of the Chilean Fruit Growing Society. Within his long career, in 2002 he obtained a scholarship from the Ministry of Science and Technology of Japan to study strawberry physiology at Yamagata University. He has published numerous articles and in the middle of 2018 he has published the revised and updated second edition of the book “Blueberries”.