INIA maintains the development of wheat varieties adapted to climate change conditions in south central Chile

In order to understand the generation of wheat varieties destined for the fields of the south-central part of the country, the Ñuble Department of Agriculture, Juan Carlos Molina, visited the wheat genetic improvement program that INIA Quilamapu has in the Santa Experimental Field. Rosa on the outskirts of Chillán. Molina, together with the Regional Director of INIA, Rodrigo Avilés, visited the demonstration plots where the current and future varieties of baker and candeal wheat grow, an opportunity in which he was able to appreciate the field work carried out in the generation of wheat of better culinary quality. , despite the changing weather conditions of the last time. In the middle of plots with different trials that in 56 years have generated about 40 varieties of wheat, the regional authority was received by the head of the INIA Quilamapu wheat program, Iván Matus who, together with the researcher Dalma Castillo, showed the work of generation of varieties and how they ...