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Continuing a track record of joint research,

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Riteca has made it possible to continue learning about the genetic resources of Extremadura,

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and the Alentejo and Central regions of Portugal.

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The project consists initially in safeguarding all the genetic resources we have collected.

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To do this, we have bred them, we have characterized them,

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and after manipulating the seeds we have added them to the germ plasm bank.

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And in the second phase we are selecting the collected material to obtain varieties,

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and we are also carrying out field trials with these varieties to see how they fit in, within the sowing of meadow plants.

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The aim of this is to study the value of these species.

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The evaluation of these resources is of three kinds,

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the value of existence, as against the fact that if they didn't exist they couldn't be used.

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Then there's the value of indirect use, which is to work with them, that is to have varieties,

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which is what we are also doing in our case, and they'll be used in the very near future by farmers.

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 And then, the leisure value, which is that these genes are being stored so that in the future

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they can be used for whatever may come, as we don't know what the future will hold.

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The motive and the main value are in their applications to agriculture.

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 For farmers the importance they may have is to get varieties better adapted

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and more profitable and of higher quality than today's ones.

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This, in the end, gives seedlings which cost less and are more profitable.

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Safeguarding genetic resources is fundamental,

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it's an inheritance that we have to pass to future generations and we can't allow it to be lost,

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and so, conservation of these resources is a very important task.

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In other words, an effort in the present for the generations to come.