Chile promotes sustainable and resilient fruit growing in the Ñuble region

The Agricultural Research Institute (INIA) reported on the research project based on sustainable practices that are resilient to climate change in the Ñuble region, which will benefit a thousand farmers from the 21 communes of the region and will boost the local economy. The project “Sustainable fruit growing that is resilient to climate change in the Ñuble Region” will incorporate macadamia, pistachio and calafate, and will boost the existing production of papaya and chestnut. The project will last 36 months. In this regard, the regional director of INIA Quilamapu, Javier Chilian, commented that “this week we started with the collection of plant tissue from pistachio and macadamia, two of the main species that we will use in this varietal diversification project. These orchards, established at INIA Cauquenes 40 years ago and which have not been managed or irrigated for 20 years, have varieties adapted to dry conditions and which adapt well to the farmers of Ñuble, which makes ...