Peru: INIA analyzes genetic material to generate high quality potato seeds in Arequipa

Published 2021년 10월 22일

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The National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) has launched a project to develop potato varieties that can adapt to high-altitude floors by introducing seeds and clones of various potatoes in rural areas of the Arequipa region. The project aims to monitor the crop's growth, conserve its culinary characteristics, evaluate pest resistance, yield, and behavior under low temperatures and water stress. Through the Seed Project (Prosem), INIA has set up demonstration plots in local communities and provides training in agronomic management to farmers, with the project funded by the PAIS National Program of the Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis).

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The National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) has installed potato seeds of the varieties INIA 326 Shulay, INIA 327 Puka Cancha and INIA 316 Roja Ayacuchana, as well as 24 clones of this tuber, in the rural areas of the districts of Viraco (CP Pampachacra), Chivay (CP Canocota) and Tuti, Arequipa region, in order to obtain genetic material that generates crops with adaptability to floors over 3,500 meters above sea level. Through this work, the sector carries out monitoring techniques to evaluate the growth of the crop, conservation of culinary characteristics, biometric data, resistance to pests, level of yield, as well as the behavior of the crop at low temperatures and possible situations of water stress. To this end, INIA indicated that, through the Seed Project (Prosem), it has implemented demonstration plots in the same peasant communities in order to identify the response of the crop, as well as training in agronomic management for beneficiary ...

Source: PEagronoticias