Antigua and Barbuda: The cultivation of quinoa is being an alternative both in dryland and in irrigation in Iberoquinoa

Published 2021년 6월 24일

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Approximately 7,000 hectares of quinoa have been cultivated in Andalusia this year, with Iberoquinoa accounting for 5,600 hectares. The company's head of cultivation, Javier Moreno Carrión, stated that quinoa can be grown in various types of soils, excluding limestone, and that it is a simple crop to manage. Iberoquinoa operates a collaboration contract with farmers, providing seeds and sowing, and the harvested quinoa is transported to the factory.

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In the last AGROPOPULAR 'Innovation Section' -June 19, 2021- we talked a lot about quinoa with Javier Moreno Carrión, head of cultivation at Iberoquinoa, who highlighted that it is currently “an alternative crop in Andalusia”. This year some 7,000 hectares have been planted in this Autonomous Community, of which 5,600 are from Iberoquinoa, he detailed. "In Iberoquinoa we sow 80% of the quinoa in Andalusia, and it is being an alternative both in dry land and irrigated land", he added. "In Iberoquinoa we plant 80% of the quinoa in Andalusia" What type of soils and conditions does this crop require? To this question, the Iberoquinoa head of cultivation pointed out that "before it used to be said that quinoa is rustic" but actually he likes a lot of types of soils, such as sandy soils or lands suitable for olive groves. However, he does not like limestone soils that much. Regarding the conditions and crop management, Moreno Carrión explained that ...

Source: Agropopular