Juan Cabrera Cabrera

Ir. Juan Cabrera Cabrera began his training in agronomy at the University of La Laguna in 1976. In 1980, he was awarded a scholarship to the Regional Center for Agricultural Research and Development-CRIDA of the Canary Islands (now the Canary Institute for Agrarian Research ICIA.) – a body at that time dependent on the Institute Nacional de Investigaciones Agrarias (INIA) -, where he has developed his research activity to date. He has participated as a researcher in numerous R + D + I projects related to the banana tree. Author/co-author of numerous research and dissemination works related to this crop.

During more than three decades of uninterrupted work in the ICIA, I have participated as a guest, speaker, or an organizer in numerous events (Congresses, seminars, technical conferences, courses) related to the cultivation of banana. Coordinator of the European project (MAC / 01/054) “Transfer of R + D + I for the sustainable development of the banana crop in the MAC RUPs. (BIOMUSA), within the Transnational Cooperation Program MAC 2007-2013. He is currently a career civil servant (Principal Investigator) of the ICIA, (Canary Institute of Agrarian Research) having held the position of Director of the Department of Tropical Fruit Production for the last ten years