Brazil: Embrapa offers a new habanero pepper cultivar to seed producers

Published Jul 22, 2021

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The Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) is offering the new habanero pepper cultivar, BRS Araçari, to pepper seed producers through a public offering. The offer includes four lots of the genetic seed of the new cultivar, which is protected by the National Service for the Protection of Cultivars and has resistance to root-knot nematodes and intermediate resistance to bacteria of the Ralstonia complex. Interested producers must submit their documentation by August 20, 2021, and qualified producers will be notified on August 23, 2021. The BRS Araçari pepper is expected to serve the fresh fruit market and market niches aimed at differentiated pepper-based products.

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The habanero type pepper BRS Araçari is being offered by the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) to pepper seed producers registered in the National Registry of Seeds and Seedlings (RENASEM). The public offering notice will select producers interested in licensing the production and marketing of seeds of the new pepper cultivar developed by the company's Capsicum pepper genetic improvement program. Seed producers must send the documentation requested in Public Offering No. 05/2021 by 5:00 pm on August 20, 2021 to the e-mail:sin.eca@embrapa.br. Interested parties will be ranked in order of receipt of the email as long as there are lots of genetic seed of the BRS Araçari pepper cultivar available. In all, the public offering includes four (4) lots consisting of 10 grams of genetic seed of the new cultivar, which is protected by the National Service for the Protection of Cultivars (SNPC), of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply. Each seed producer can ...

Source: GrupoCultivar