Spain: They identify the key factors to establish a commercial maqui orchard

Published 2021년 8월 12일

Tridge summary

A study aimed at enhancing the production of maqui, a superfood, is underway in southern Chile due to the crop's increasing demand and low yield. The research, supported by the Foundation for Agrarian Innovation (FIA), has identified the need for advanced technologies to improve the productive potential of maqui orchards and stabilize yields. The project has identified six critical factors for successful maqui cultivation, including the need to choose the most adapted ecotype, efficient water irrigation, and correcting phosphorus levels in soil. The project also emphasizes the importance of healthy nursery plants and nutritional conditioning of soil for organic production.
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Original content

The appeal of maqui as a superfood is indisputable. And even though consumption is increasing, production is still unable to respond to growing demand. The harvest volumes are small and the productions variable as the orchards are not designed on a commercial scale. There are advances in the identification of genetic populations of this species that allow its domestication. However, there is insufficient technical information about crop management, fertilization and irrigation requirements, pruning techniques and conduction systems. Seeking to solve these problems, an investigation determined the key management of a commercial organic maqui orchard. This was the result of the project "Development of a technological package for the establishment and commercial production of maqui (Aristotelia chilensis) under sustainable management that allows mitigating the effects of climate change." The new technologies applied in this crop (associated with innovation) "should maximize the ...
Source: Redagricola

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