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The City Council of Não-Me-Toque announced on this Tuesday, February 5th, the name of the person honored with the Golden Seed Award in 2019. Researcher and professor, with expressive activities in the history of Expodireto Cotrijal, in many opportunities acting as a lecturer, Elmar Floss will receive the tribute during the ceremony in the afternoon of March 11th, at 5:00 PM, in the Central Auditorium of the Park.

“The choice was made together between Cotrijal, the City Council and the City Hall and Elmar is a person who has contributed not only to the fair, but to the agribusiness in the state and in the country”, pointed the president of Cotrijal, Nei César Mânica, when delivering the invitation to the award winner to participate of the award ceremony. The moment also had the participation of the vice-president of Cotrijal, Enio Schroeder; of the mayor of Não-Me-Toque, Pedro Paulo Falcão da Rosa; of the president of the City Council, Carlos Alberto Bacher; and of the superintendent of Agricultural and Livestock Production of Cotrijal, Gelson Melo de Lima.

With emotion, Floss thanked the acknowledgment and remembered that he has participated in the fair since the beginning. “Back then, we could not imagine that the Expodireto would become this giant forum of debates about topics which concern directly the sector. Here many essential topics for the producers were already debated and defended and this is the main contribution of the fair to the agribusiness. I am honored of receiving this tribute”, he said.

THE AWARD

The Golden Seed Award was created in 2005, with the objective of valuing the work of people, companies or institutions which contribute to the success of Expodireto Cotrijal and therefore to the Brazilian agribusiness.

THE AWARD WINNER

Elmar Luiz Floss graduated in Agronomy in 1975 and in Science teaching degree in 1976, by the University of Passo Fundo (UPF). He has a doctorate in Agronomy – Soils and Plants Nutrition, by the Superior Agriculture School Luiz de Queiroz – unit of the University of São Paulo. He was a professor in the courses of Agronomy, Biological Sciences, Agriculture and Livestock Technicians and Rural Administration of the University of Passo Fundo, from 1976 to 2009. He was also a professor and advisor in the program of Post-graduation (master’s degree and doctorate) of the Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine Faculty/UPF, from 1996 to 2009. Currently, he is the technical director of the Agronomical Sciences Institute Professor Elmar Luiz Floss and a consultant of SEEDS – Seeds Analysis and Agricultural Research – and of FLOSS – Consultancy and Assistance in Agribusiness.

Source: Press Office of Expodireto Cotrijal