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Garlic is mired in a deep crisis in Spain. And that is bad news for a particular place: Cuenca

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Spain occupies An important place In the world macker of garlic, but that does not mean that the farmers of Castilla-La Mancha or Andalusia who are dedicated to growing it are easy. The garlic It crosses turbulence. The sector warns of the difficulties that are to combat pests, the effects of drought, the “excessive bureaucracy” or the lack of generational relief, among other stalking challenges. A complicated panorama that is seen with special attention from the province of Cuenca, where the Purple Garlic from Las Pedroñeras. After all, garlic is much more than a vegetable that fluctuates in the market: The sector claims which is a crop that helps to “pour” the emptied Spain. “In crisis”. He newly named President of the National Garlic Bureau, José Carlos Patiño, is clear: they do not run good times for his business. In An interview With eldiario.es the agriculture Manchego, the new visible face of the Aheros, warned that the sector “is suffering a” aggravated crisis, among other factors, by the water scarcitythe reduction of hectares of crop, the lack of generational relief and a bureaucracy that they consider “excessive.” It is nothing new. His predecessor, Julio Bacete I already used The same word to describe the situation that farmers dedicated to garlic culture face: “crisis.” A year ago, during A talk with Xatakahe admitted that the sector was going through “complicated moments”, a trend that is visible mainly in the loss of hectares dedicated to plantations. Why’s that? For a sum of factors. Although not all weigh the same. When explaining the situation, farmers usually point out above all loss of resources To fight pests. They ensure that their arsenal has been trimmed by regulations, which subtracts tools to protect crops … and their investments. “It’s not about talking badly about the 2030 Agenda or the Green Pact, but the reduction we carry in phytosanitary is affecting us a lot. There are diseases, pests, fungi that we cannot control,” warns Patiño. “We have a very large decrease. There is a lack of performance, simply in the seed itself. In nascence there are plots that have a decrease of 30% damage. In the end, that is kilos of garlic,” Comment the representative of the sector. He is not the only one who thinks like that. The president of the National Association of Garlic Producers and Marketers (ANPCA), Fernando Rubio, He shared recently A similar message with The confidential: “Pests begin to be resistant because we have very little variety of active matter that we can use.” Pest question … And something else. Although the shortage of resources to treat pests and fungi is usually one of the most cited handicaps by farmers is not the only one that explains the “crisis” that faces garlic. The guild indicates other serious ones, both structural and short -term: water shortage, specialized professionals and generational relief, “Excess bureaucracy”loss of hectares, the cost of land lease, low visibility in the domestic market or even the effect of imports and The tariffs by Donald Trump. The sector has been dealing with China’s competition for some time, Great world exporter of garlic and that stands out especially for its prices. With that backdrop, In the guild worries now what The tariff war and the imposition of levies to Chinese trade in the US ends up leading Asian farmers to redirect their merchandise towards other destinations, complicating exports to Spain. It is not the only conjunctural challenge with which the sector has dealt with, which in recent years has had to see them with The increase of The energy either Fertilizers. Hectares. The transformation of the sector can also be measured in figures. For example, that of the cultivated area. The data does not always coincide, but show a clear loss of soil: The report presented a year ago by the National Garlic Table to the Mixed Fruit and Vegetable Committee notes that it has passed from 29,826 hectares in 2021 to a provision of 21,000. Other sources They point out that it has dropped from 24,900 h in 2023 to something less than 23,000 In the 2024 season. The descent would be even more accent in Some regions. “Much investment”. “Putting one hectare of garlic carries a lot warns Patiño at eldiario.es. Less land does not always have less crops. Some data They point to the high weight of garlic Springvariety that stands out for its rhythm of production and performance, and a loss of land of purple garlic. As for prices, the manager wait Good values, above last year. The ministry indicates that the 100 kg of dry garlic are in 125 euros. Garlic (and something else). Not everyone lives the same turbulence that the vegetable is going through. After all, as He noticed recently Rubio, garlic plays a key role as a job generator in part of emptied Spain. “The cultivation is going to be lost to many villages of rural Spain, the reason for about 60 wages per hectare,” duck The President of ANPCA. In that context, there is a variety of culture to which Pay attention The sector: purple garlic. In a basin place … “In purple garlic it is a very serious problem. It is in danger and production can be left,” Patiño points out to The confidential. The reason is simple: to the rest of the challenges that the Ajero collective is going through, the purple variety adds the lack of visibility in the stores. Although the purple garlic of Las Pedroñeras It has one Protected Geographic Indicationthe sector regrets its lack of dissemination in a market in which the client values ​​the cost. Looking at the Canary Islands banana. “It does not happen with the banana, which differs much from the banana. Here the qualities are not compared to, but there is no culture to seek the garlic of the Pedroñeras in the super” s, Rubio reflects. To this lack of recognition is added the performance of the variety, less than that … Read more

China is developing an underwater space station more than 2,000 meters deep

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In 1971, the former Russian Soviet Union launched its first space station, Slayut 1which was 175 days in orbit. From then on, the career in the space sector has grown tirelessly. In contrast we have the oceanic fund that around 80% is without mapping or exploring, According to the Oceanic and Atmospheric National Administration (NOA). In addition, in different studies with monitors, key minerals have been found for current technology and China He has got to work. Short. China has started the construction of an underwater laboratory at 2,000 meters deep in the Meriodional China Sea. The project developed in the deep waters of Guangzhou has been described as an “underwater space station”, where six scientists will be for more than a month to study the marine ecosystem, According to Chinadily. The underwater base. As have explained in the same mediumResearchers will aim to study cold leak ecosystems, a natural phenomenon that contains high amounts of methane hydrate. This gas is considered a less polluting alternative to traditional fossil fuels, but its extraction to great depths is a complex risk. On the other hand, the laboratory will also seek to explore minerals such as cobalt, nickel and rare earths, important elements for the technological and energy industry. Dangerous extraction. The deposits in the seabed, especially those at extreme depths, can cause irreparable damage to marine ecosystems. In fact, the international authority of the seabed has not established a regulation that determines how to carry out the activity, although studies are still being carried out. Currently, ISA He is holding meetings For the regulation of seabed extraction, while environmental organizations They are claiming a protection of oceans above commercial interests. Is there a place for everyone? The research center will be open to international collaborations and is aligned with the United Nations decade for the restoration of ecosystems, According to Global Times. However, this initiative will intensify disputes in the South China Sea. All this is because the Asian giant has claimed sovereignty over a large part of the area, which has led to tensions with neighboring countries that also wish to exploit their resources. Besides, According to El Confidencialcritics of the Chinese government have alerted the risk of this underwater base that could serve as justification for an increase in Chinese military presence. The submarine laboratory. According to El Confidencialthe station will be connected to a fiber optic network in the seabed and will support pressures 200 times higher than the sea level. Scientists will spend between a month and 45 days underwater, without natural light. In addition, the base will feature advanced submersibles, surface ships and equipment to perform four -dimensional monitoring of the region. In addition, the initial phase will focus on the construction of pressure resistant structures and simulation systems. Surpassing AI and autonomous vehicles. The station, as have detailed in SCMPIt will allow scientists to perform real -time experiments under extreme conditions, which is currently not possible to arrive with artificial intelligence or autonomous vehicles. As has explained for Global Times The project director, Chaolun Li, the initiative will contribute to the ecological and experimental monitoring in situ, advancing human knowledge in these extreme environments. Image | Proteus Ocean Group Xataka | Chinese submarines are authentic crickets: a new generation promises to change the rules of the game

has drilled a well -deep well

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China has initiated a considerable amount of projects that are tremendously ambitious. The New Silk Routeit has been proposed to lead in the creation of Batteries for electric cars And also in the solar panel segment. Another objective is to squeeze your deserts. That is why he has undertaken the construction of huge solar farmsbut it has also begun to make kilometer holes. One of them is the Shendi Take-1 That, with its almost 11 kilometers deep, it is a considerable feat. And it is expected to be extremely profitable. Taklamakán. Located in the westernmost region of China, this desert is not only huge: it is a mine. A reservoir, rather, and one that the Chinese oil company Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, or saropec, is exploiting good. It is estimated that in this basin is one of the most promising oil and gas reserves in China and Sinopec has More than a hundred of wells in the region. The problem is that it is an area where it is well buried and it is estimated that much of the reserves are between 6,000 and 10,000 meters. In November 2023, Sinopec inaugurated the Project Deep Earth 1-Yuejin 3-3xca well of more than 9,400 meters deep to extract oil in that Ultraprofunda layer. And, although it was an achievement for how quickly they built it, it has just been eclipsed by a well of a rival company. Shendi Take-1. In the same desert, China National Petroleum corporation, or CNPC, built The Shendi Take-1, a vertical well that has converted in the deepest of Asia thanks to its 10,910 meters deep. It has broken the occasional record in confirming the presence of natural gas at that depth and one of its tasks will be to extract these resources. Colosa In all aspects. A ‘deep hole’ attracts attention on its own, but it is much more curious if we take into account that “only” have taken 580 days to reach that depth. The most complex was those final 910 meters and it was what they invested more time: 300 days. The question is why the last 910 meters took more than in the previous 10,000. The answer is because, as Comment The director of the platform, “each additional meter to a certain depth increases the complexity of drilling exponentially.” We need another drill. As we deepen the cortex, the temperature increases. 10,000 meters rise above 210 degrees Celsius and the pressure is also huge, which forced the CNPC to develop an automated drilling platform with potential to reach 12,000 meters. Not only the heads, with diamond drill, are designed to endure temperatures: a refrigerant has also been created capable of dissipating heat at that room temperature and elements such as screws have also been created to maintain their integrity at all times. It is not something that would be done only for this well, since China’s intention is to lead in ultra -professional excavations from now on thanks to these tools of which 90% have been manufactured nationwide, which allows the tunnelador to be replicated in a simple way without having to import too many elements. Dual purpose. Beyond extracting oil and gas, the Shendi Take-1 will allow exploration geological It makes all the meaning: when completed, 13 layers of the earth will have crossed, having the rock that is drilling more than 500 million years. It still remains. And we say “when completed” because CNPC has confirmed that the objective remains to reach a depth of 11,100 meters. It will be then when they reach that thirteenth land layer and almost to the limit of what the drilling platform can offer. In this way, in addition to allowing the interior of the planet better in Asia, China ensures tools and capacity to exploit one of the most complicated oil reserves in the world because most of the resources (60%) are at that depth. And yes, China will not even overcome the SG-3 well. Known as him Kola superprofundo wellit was a well that the Soviets took 19 years to complete, reaching 12,262 meters, but unlike that, whose purpose was the investigation of the lithosphere, the Shendi Take-1 will not only serve to satisfy the scientific curiosity, but to extract liquid gold in the process. Images | CNPC (2), Sinopec In Xataka | This is how the most hated climate change industry works: the coal industry

Telecinco crossed a deep audience crisis. Until the key on ‘The island of temptations’

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The hearings of ‘The island of temptations’ since The Montoya phenomenon He made his irruption on social networks have only grows, and have reached a climax in both narrative and spectators with this week’s galas. Although it will still be in the coming weeks with some gala of ‘What was …’ and the like, the last regrets in Montoya, Anita and Manuel, the tempting who generated a schism inside the couple has been the icing for this edition. “You have left me like a scolding.” It was alone One more of the many glorious phrases that the Infinite Andalusian Ingenio de Montoya. All immersed in a narrative that is hard to believe that he was not previously scripted due to his devastating sense of rhythm and his iconic Rancio melodrama characters (the hero who finds dignity, the liar who remains alone, The villain that punishes twice). Result: 16.7% quota and 2,103,000 spectators, the best Wednesday of this edition. The figures. They are not precisely nimios data: it exceeds 2.5 points and more than 300,000 viewers for the best audience that the program had had until now, three weeks ago. But above all, the most important thing: it exceeds the two daily titans and exceeds both global data and in strict coincidence of ‘El Hormiguero’ and ‘La Revuelta’. The motorcycle program had 13.7% of Share and 1,865,000 spectators, and well below, Broncano scored 11.1% and 1,519,000 spectators. Football again damages the latter again, since the Champions League in Movistar Plus+ made 8.6% and 1,139,000 spectators. The Telecinco respite. These figures suppose an oxygen ball for Telecinco, which remains the third option behind Antena 3 and 1. The triumph of ‘The island of temptations’ adds to other variables such as the final of ‘Big Brother’ and the Return from ‘Ana Rosa’ in the morningwhich makes Telecinco the option that goes up to January, with nine tenths. Of course, it came from playing background: its historical minimum in regular season (8.7%) and despite the rise, this February has been the worst in its history, with 9.6% on average. That is, certain notes of improvement are perceived, but the audiences remain abysmal. Ana Rosa as spearhead. Yesterday ‘Ana Rosa’ program, which returned in the morning after a dull evening stage in ‘afternoon’ (which curiously is working very decently in the afternoon without its alma mater) signed his best data since he returned to his original schedule: 15.2% of Share. In his strip, he led without possible competition, with almost two points of advantage, but could not stand up to Arús in his first two hours, which remains untouchable from 9 to 11 in the morning with 16.1% of Share. Even so, they are also good news for a Telecinco willing to grab any favorable data. Big Brother confirms the domain of the realities. For many headlines that monopolize its discussed final (which has made ‘tongo‘Be Trending topic in networks), ‘Big Brother Duo 3’ has both a confirmation that the formula is exhausted and that the realities They are almost the only resource of Telecinco to scratch respectable audiences (Share record -17.6% – with their end). With the failure of ‘Whoever falls falls‘, one of his great bets of this season, and the bass ratings of talents as ‘Next Level Chef’ (which You have to take over the strip of Late Night To give decent data per comparison), it is clear in which gender will continue to trust the channel. The future of the island. Now, Telecinco meets a reality that he had relegated to a secondary role obtaining his best audiences from the first auditions, so he undoubtedly has a very specific objective for the next edition: finding his next Montoya. Meanwhile, the new edition of ‘Survivors! The usual feedback of Telecinco programs, now at the service of responding to low chain audiences. Header | Mediaset In Xataka | ‘La Revuelta’ has made the issuance of lotteries at last something interesting. In return, a millionaire fine has been taken

Deep Research is not just a new AI function. It is the beginning of the end of intellectual work as we know it

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Elon Musk’s new AI, Grok 3it is already official. Among its promoted capabilities is a function called ‘Deep Search’, suspiciously similar to the Deep Research that Google coined and copied Openai. It is normal: in recent weeks we have seen almost all IA giants announcing similar capabilities. It is a new trend in AI that goes beyond incremental improvements. These systems can navigate the web, analyze multiple sources, synthesize information and produce detailed reports on an issue. And with a level of sophistication that is dangerously approaching the work of many human analysts. In any field. The difference with traditional applications is great. Instead of returning some Tokens In seconds, they return information pages in minutes. And neither does it have anything to do with searches: it does not return a list of semantically related links, but can understand complex questions, decompose them in parts, investigate each aspect by consulting dozens of sources and assemble a coherent analysis citing their references. In less than ten minutes. The results are impressive. OpenAI said – and we are verifying that it is basically true – that Your Deep Research can do in half an hour what would take days to professional analysts. And although it makes occasional mistakes (such as a factual skate, or the appointment of a source that does not exist), the general quality of the result is good enough for many practical purposes. This supposes A shot to the flotation line of much of the current intellectual work. The analysts junior of consultants, the researchers who review literature, the lawyers who prepare preliminary reports or the financial advisors doing business analysis. A great portion of your work is to collect, synthesize and present information that you drink from many sources. Like any Deep Research. It is not that these systems will completely replace intellectual workers. They still have important limitations: They cannot access private or not published information. From time to time they confuse sources or draw erroneous conclusions. They lack the expert criteria for certain analysis. Nevertheless, They can already automate much of the repetitive work and “low level” that occupies many professionals today. This also leads us to A paradox: Deep Research systems will surely increase the productivity of the most qualified workers, who can take advantage of them to enhance their ability; But the jobs that used to serve as entry, training field to end up being one of those experts are put at risk. The Deep Research have potential to alter the professional trajectories of any knowledge -based industry. It is another example of how AI not only automates manual work, but also It goes into territories that we believed reserved for the human intellect. The question is no longer whether IA can do that intellectual work, but how much of that work will continue to make economic meaning if it is made pro human. There will be companies that due to ignorance, for cynicism or pride will prefer to ignore these capacities. They are the most exposed will be at the risk of being left behind. For the rest of us, We have as a pending task to think about how to manage this transition: The one that can make obsolete many functions that we believed automation. In Xataka | With Grok 3, Elon Musk presume Outstanding image | OpenAI

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