O'Higgins Region seeks to maintain international leadership of bilberry with efficient irrigation
Farmers will receive training to improve the water resource of this berrie.
Our country is the first exporter of blueberries of the southern hemisphere and the second in the world, for this reason it is important to improve the production conditions of this fruit, especially when it is the most vital element for its production, and that every day it becomes more scarce: water.
This motivated a group of experts from the Faculty of Agronomic Sciences of the University of Chile to develop a project that seeks to improve the use of water resources of blueberries in the O'Higgins region through the training of producers of this fruit .
In this regard, José Ignacio Covarrubias, agronomist and project leader, said that "The objective of this plan is to find a way to irrigate the right, occupying what the plant consumes to optimize the resource and at the same time attack soil compaction".
On the other hand, Covarrubias pointed out that "cranberry is a crop that lends itself to the activity of small producers, it is a berrie that produces a fruit that has a high value, therefore it is a crop that many small producers are addressing and we aim to help that type of producer"He says.
The expert adds that "if the farmer saves on water, he also saves on the use of fertilizers and electrical energy and also achieves better root growth, which translates into a greater productive potential and therefore an increase in their competitiveness".
In addition, Héctor Vargas, producer of blueberries from the O'Higgins region, highlighted this initiative as he pointed out that "It is very important that they teach us to use water well because it is super scarce. We water the eye".
On the other hand, the initiative also includes the participation of students from neighboring agricultural schools, related to the field, to instruct them in the contingent issues associated with agricultural production.
This project, which is financed by the Regional Government of O'Higgins through the Innovation Fund for Competitiveness-framed in the Regional Innovation Strategy, has a duration of 30 months and in addition to the probes, it contemplates generating an optimal management of the physical fertility of the soil and training for small and medium blueberry producers, students of agricultural schools and technical advisers of the Institute of Agricultural Development (INDAP), of the Ministry of Agriculture (Minagri).
Source: The typographer
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