Sociedade Portuguesa de Pastagens e Forragens (SPPF)

Estação Nacional de Melhoramento
de Plantas (ENMP)

Food & Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations (FAO)



Mediterranean Agronomic
Institute of Zaragoza (IAMZ)


12th MEETING OF THE FAO-CIHEAM SUB-NETWORK ON MEDITERRANEAN PASTURES AND FODDER CROPS
"Sustainable Mediterranean Grasslands and their Multi-Functions”
ELVAS (Portugal) 9-12 APRIL 2008

The Meeting will be held at the “Centro de Negócios Transfronteiriço de Elvas” kindly provided by the Municipality of Elvas. It is placed at the industrial area, 500 m far from National Plant Breeding Station.

Elvas is a town with 25000 inhabitants, placed in the East of Portugal, 200 kilometers from Lisbon and a few kilometers from the Spanish border.

The Estaçao Nacional de Melhoramento de Plantas (ENMP, National Plant Breeding Station, ENMP) is one of the Research Station of INIAP (Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e das Pescas, National Agricultural and Fisheries Research Institute of Portugal). Its areas of research cover cereal crops, fodder crops, pastures and olives.

The Town of Elvas

The ENMP

Transportation to Elvas

With the collaboration of Fertiprado Ltd.