Chile: Agronomía UdeC signs second collaboration agreement with Ferrero Hazelnut Company

Brands such as Ferrero Rocher, Nutella or Kinder, which are known in our country and worldwide, are products where one of the main ingredients is the European Hazelnut, a plant that is already grown on some 25 thousand hectares in the fields of the central zone southern and southern Chile. This crop, like many others, can be affected by certain pests or diseases. That is why in 2019, the academic from the Department of Plant Production of the Faculty of Agronomy of the University of Concepción, Dr. Ernesto Moya Elizondo, signed with representatives of the company, Ferrero Hazelnut Company, the first research agreement to validate a product for the control of bacterial blight that affects the European Hazelnut. “We realized that fungi and many of the symptoms that were associated with bacteriosis appeared, and the same happened to us with the samples that arrived at our Analysis Laboratory from different hazelnut producers who brought us samples with infected wood, and when making ...