Brazil: Embrapa takes wheat cultivation to the Cerrado of Roraima

Embrapa Roraima installed, at the beginning of December 2021, in its Technological Showcase, in Boa Vista, an observation unit, in the field, of the behavior of the wheat crop in the local conditions of the cerrado. In it, cultivars BRS 264, BRS 394 and BRS 404 are being evaluated, previously developed by Embrapa Cerrados for the cerrado conditions of the Midwest region and selected for testing in Roraima. Currently, the plants at Vitrine Tecnológica in Boa Vista are about 45 days after germination, are in the grain filling phase and have a good productive potential, exceeding the researchers' expectations in terms of precocity and health of the material in field. Also in January 2022, scale planting tests were started with these cultivars, in a larger area in the Água Boa Experimental Field (CEAB), in which their adaptability to the edaphoclimatic conditions of the Cerrados of Roraima, as well as the quality of the grains, will be evaluated. produced, their performance in the ...