MIDAGRI: In Peru, INIA's modern genetic resources laboratory in Junín will increase research to promote potato, corn, quinoa, wheat and oats crops

“This implementation will help boost the research that is being carried out in terms of improving the quality of crops of quinoa, potatoes, wheat, corn, barley, oats, garlic, artichokes, corn, as well as livestock activities. In addition, it will provide a service to farmers to improve their agricultural production, ”said Minister Tenorio. It should be noted that the Minister Federico Tenorio, accompanied by the President of Peru Francisco Sagasti, arrived in the Junín region to visit the Santa Ana Agrarian Experimental Station, and took a tour of the modern genetic resources laboratory facilities in the aforementioned region. Minister Tenorio explained that this new infrastructure, which will be directed by the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) of MIDAGRI, has rooms for the analysis of plant health, in vitro tissue culture, entomopathogens laboratory, seed quality, evaluation of water, soils, animal biotechnology, pest management and genetic resources. All of them ...