In 1994, Cornelia Georgeta Pacurariu obtained a B.Sc.in agronomy, horticulture speciality, from the University of Agricultural Sciences Cluj-Napoca (Romania). After graduating, she worked as training agronomist in grapevine. Afterwards, she worked on market gardening as a person in charge to develop the cultivation programs and the production calendars, diseases identification, pests and weed control, to recommend the treatments, to introduce the new cultures and to eliminate the least productive. Since 2000 she worked as a sales representative for a company specialized to produce pesticides, her tasks were to explore the market and to promote pesticides sales in the west of Romania. In August 2005, she immigrated in Canada. She followed a formation at CarrefourBLE to update her professional knowledge (sustainable agriculture, PAEF, agro-economy, HACCP etc). Presently, she makes training course at the Horticulture Research and Development Centre, Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, QC, in Plant Breeding and Physiology of Fruits/Small Fruits, and Statistics team. Her principal task is to evaluate the symptoms of mineral deficiency on strawberry plant.

 

The person in charge of the training course: Shahrokh Khanizadeh