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Spain: Kiwi in the Ribera del Ebro as an alternative to the Sharka virus

Fresh Kiwifruit
Spain
Published Jun 4, 2022

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Yesterday the planting of kiwis began on three farms in Benissanet, in the Ribera de Ebro, which is one of the proposals of the Crop Diversification Plan promoted by the Department of Climate Action of Catalonia to deal with the Sharka virus, which has caused very serious damage to stone fruit trees. The experimental fields will be a test bench open to the visit and consultation of interested farmers. Planting work will last a couple of weeks.

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They are proposed as a pilot test and have been carried out in four different plots of 0.75 hectares of land in the municipality of Benissanet. The data obtained will be available to anyone who is interested and the project seeks to lay the foundations for a future industrial cultivation of kiwi in the region. In this line, transfer sessions and visits to the plots of those who are interested will be considered. Different varieties of kiwi will be experimented with, with varying market value but also with different degrees of cultivation difficulty, and various shading strategies will be tested, since this fruit is originally grown in shady places with medium-high humidity and low humidity. organic matter load in the soil. In short, it is about testing different successful cultivation strategies to see how they adapt to the climatic and soil characteristics of the region. Monitoring and accompaniment in the sector will be carried out over the next five years with the aim of ...
Source: Agrodigital
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