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Thanks to a project: INIA and FIA develop brown-type almond and chestnut varieties for the southern zone of Chile

Almond Kernel
Chestnut Kernel
Chile
Published Sep 12, 2020

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Thanks to the impulse of the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA), INIA Carillanca executes a program of economic technical validation for the establishment of varieties of almond and brown-type chestnut, as part of the Araucanía Impulse Plan.

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Temuco, September 11, 2020.- Pedro Bustos, National Director of the Institute for Agricultural Research (INIA) and Álvaro Eyzaguirre, Executive Director of the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA), visited the INIA Carillanca Regional Center. On the occasion, they toured the almond orchards that are part of an economic technical validation program for the establishment of high-density almond varieties in the region, specifically in the Vilcún commune, thus becoming the largest productive orchard in the south of Chile, an initiative that is led by the Agronomist Carlos Fuentes. This project will make it possible to make available to producers a technical-economic validation model of promising fruit species, developed on a commercial scale and whose results can be disseminated and transferred, in order to promote new alternatives to the productive matrix of La Araucanía. “Due to a series of climatic changes that Chile faces, mainly in the factors of temperature and water ...
Source: Inia
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