Paraguay

Pedro
Acuña

Biography

Instructor in Agricultural Entomology at the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences, National University of Itapúa (UNI), Paraguay, since 2010. Since 2018, he has also taught Experimental Analysis and Design at the same faculty. Since 2014, he has served as Head of the Research and Extension Department at the Faculty of Agricultural and Forestry Sciences at UNI.

Additionally, he is the Principal Investigator for project INV-134, funded by the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT). He has supervised numerous thesis projects related to biological control, monitoring, population dynamics, chemical control, and integrated pest management in both annual and perennial crops.

His research has been published nationally and internationally.

Additional training:

  • Integrated Pest Management in Extensive Crops, University of São Paulo, Brazil (2015).
  • Monitoring, biological control, and pest management in transgenic crops, São Paulo State University, Brazil (2016).
  • Identification of lepidopteran larvae of agricultural importance, National University of Córdoba, Argentina (2019).
  • Training in experimental statistics, biometrics, and multivariate analysis, Federal University of Viçosa, Brazil.
Sponsors
BID
IICA
With the support of
Fondo Coreano de Alianza para el Conocimiento en Tecnología e Innovación (KPK)