INIA will have 25 hectares of potatoes and 150 hectares of cereals in Chile

National director, Iris Lobos, made the announcement in the framework of her visit to the INIA La Pampa Experimental Center, where she toured the laboratories and the herd of Angus fine cattle of the main center for the production of certified potato and cereal seeds of INIA in the south From Chile. “This season we will have 25 hectares of potatoes to deliver certified seed in southern Chile. In addition, 150 hectares of cereal seedbeds, where we will have oats, triticale and wheat and we will also make a contribution to genetics through our Angus genetic nucleus that we also have here at INIA La Pampa”, said Iris Lobos, national director from the Agricultural Research Institute (INIA) at the end of their tour of INIA La Pampa, a seed production center located in Purranque, Los Lagos Region. Lobos stressed that "with this, INIA is contributing in a real way to food sovereignty and security and at the same time giving priority support to peasant family farming." These announcements ...