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The Director General of Operations and Training Modernization of Agricultural, Ángel García Lidón, along with director Murciano Research Institute for Agriculture and Food (IMID), Adrian Martinez, showed today to interested farmers producing 70 varieties of cherry, as a result R & D project on the fruit that has been carried out at the experimental farm 'La Maestra' Integrated Training Center and Agricultural Experiences (CIFE) in Jumilla.
The researcher Diego Frutos, director of the R & D project, said the test patterns and the collection of varieties grown in drip irrigation and fertigation, with the aim of obtaining a profitable crop with maximum water saving , and production of high quality fruit trade.
The trees are trained in multiple arm glass to reduce its size and facilitate harvesting.
The results of these trials, Garcia Lidón, "will answer the questions that always made farmers: what to plant, where to plant and cultivate."
He also stressed that "the variety of plant material behavior tested in the Altiplano can be extrapolated to areas of North West River Mula and Vega Alta del Segura, of great importance in the production of stone fruit in our region."
The responsible regional government said the importance of such research, "as the cherry crop is proving to be a very promising to increase income of farmers and family businesses in particular by high market prices, especially in their productions early. "
On the farm 'The Master' grown 70 varieties of cherry grafted on Mariana Adara 2624 with intermediary, whose trees are in their fourth green.
Was also an essay with the variety Newstar grafted on five patterns: peach x almond hybrid Mayor and Mariana plum 2624, both with buffer Adara, MaxMara 14, Adara and Santa Lucia 64.
In another test patterns have also been introduced Gisela 5 and 6, and Piku 1, 2 and 3.
Source: CARM
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