Odón E. Luis Abad Flores (born in Puerto Tarafa, Camagüey, Cuba, on 18 November 1929 – died 26 May 2016Death of Academician D. Odón Luis Abad Flores , Royal Galician Academy of Sciences, 31 May 2016) was a Galician professor, writer, and agricultural engineer. He had lived in Galicia since 1932.
Career
A son of emigrants, he obtained a doctorate in agricultural engineering from the Escuela Superior Técnica de Ingenieros Agrónomos in Madrid in 1960. There, he founded the journal Agro.The vice-president of the Provincial Council, nationalist Antón Bao, after presiding over the Government Council, announced in the traditional press conference that the Culture Department would recover the first publication of the poem Letanía de Galicia by Uxío Novoneyra, published in 1972 in issue no. 3, page 63, of the journal Fronte e Cocote, of the School of Technical Agricultural Engineers of Lugo. Directed by Odón Luis Abad Flores, the sub-director was veterinarian and professor Leoncio Cadórniga Carro, and the editor-in-chief was student Adolfo de Abel Vilela. The poem had been censored three times. It was proposed for publication by Xesús Alonso Montero, a neighbor of Abad Flores. The border was designed from drawings by Castelao taken from the Álbum Nós, photographed by student Miguel Ángel Montero Vaz. The border was drawn by painter Luis Gómez Pacios at Adolfo de Abel's request. That same year he joined the National Land Consolidation ServiceDolores Vilavedra (coord.) Diccionario da Literatura Galega, Vol I, Vigo, 1995, p. 17 in A Coruña, and in 1963 became the first provincial chief engineer of that agency in Lugo. He was also sub-director and professor of Phytotechnics and Engines and Machines at the School of Agricultural Technical Engineering of Lugo from its founding until 1971. At this school, he founded the journal Fronte e Cocote and directed its first issues.
In 1972 he was appointed regional inspector in Galicia of the newly created National Institute for Agrarian Reform and Development (IRYDA), serving until 1984, when he was named Director General of Agrarian Planning and Development of the Galician Government, a post he held until 1986.Appointment decree and dismissal
He dedicated his life to the study of Galician agriculture. He carried out or directed land consolidation for over ten thousand hectares and the construction of more than five thousand kilometers of rural roads. He also participated in the rural electrification process of the National Institute of Colonization (INC).
He published several books and numerous scientific and literary works (Estampas do meu amigo Pepiño, Los Cinco Traperos, Década de Fermín, Una opción para la reforma agraria de Galicia, Complemento al Catón galego de Ben Cho Sey, etc.), as well as articles in the press and professional journals. He gave countless lectures on ecology, urban solid waste, alternative energies, new technologies, population genetics, and GM foods. For four years, he was responsible for the agricultural pages of La Voz de Galicia and participated in several commissions and organizations related to Galician agricultural policy. He often used the pseudonyms Dabades, Pau de Vimbio, Garabolos, or O cabalo de diante.
He was a full member of the Royal Academy of Medicine and Surgery of Galicia and of the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences since 1982,He joined with the speech Home e técnica. and a full member of the Instituto José Cornide de Estudos Coruñeses since 1984. He was also a member of the Association Général des Hygienistes et Techniciens Municipaux from 1989 to 1999.
He was a founding member of FEROGASA, drafted its implementation project, and served as director of its board of directors during 1996–1997.
Major works
Introducción á economía galega de hoxe, 1969. With Mario Orjales Pita et al.
Una opción para la reforma agraria de Galicia
A reforma agraria do minifundio
Máquinas e trebellos pra labrar a terra: complemento agrícola ó catón galego. Sada (A Coruña): Ediciós do Castro, 1970
Estampas do meu amigo Pepiño. Sada (A Coruña): Ediciós do Castro, 1980. Illustrated by the author, foreword by Isaac Díaz Pardo. ISBN 84-7492-024-8
A cousa agraria no Estatuto de Autonomía. Vigo: Galaxia, 1980
Awards
"Pérez Lugín" Prize (1951), from the Asociación de la Prensa de La Coruña for his work Galicia a través de los personajes de Emilia Pardo Bazán.
Officer of the Civil Order of Agricultural Merit.ABC newspaper of Madrid
"Fernández Latorre" Prize (1964) for his article O grao de corvo, one of the short stories included in the book Estampas do meu amigo Pepiño.Fundación Fernández Latorre. Includes a brief description of the story-article and a caricature by .
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