Juan Carlos
Rey

Biography

Agricultural Engineer graduated from UCV (1992), with Msc. from the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) in Soil Sciences (1996); Master in Soil Sciences and PhD candidate (presentation December 2019) at the UCV Postgraduate Area Sciences: Land Evaluation. My doctoral research work is focused on the use of agroecological information to improve the soil survey process through digital mapping. Currently I work as a PI-8III Researcher at the National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIA), and as Assistant Professor at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) (Part Time) since 1996, developing the areas of Research in Agrology, Land Evaluation , Climate-Soil-Crop Relationship, Sustainable Soil Management and Variability of Natural Resources.
During the last 20 years, I have been working on the modeling of the variability of soils and climate to define agroecological units and evaluate the agri-environmental and socio-economic aptitude of different land uses, supporting planning and land use planning processes.
For 8 years, I have been working in parallel on advising Musaceae Production Farms (Banana), Corn, Bermuda Grass, Citrus, Avocado, among other crops, promoting the development of precision agriculture through the analysis of variation climate (precipitation, evaporation, temperature, etc.), soil mapping, design of fertilization plans, irrigation planning, and other agronomic management practices.
More recently, I have been working on the development of clean agriculture, specifically in Musáceas (bananas), under a circular economy approach, an economic concept that is interrelated with sustainability, and whose objective is that the value of the products, the materials and resources (water, energy, ...) are kept in the economy for as long as possible, and the generation of waste is minimized

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