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The Minister of Agriculture and Water, Antonio Cerdá, today highlighted the "high degree of involvement by the private sector, in research on improved varieties of table grapes carried out the administration, allowing "immediate technology transfer" to enable the sector to get own varieties with improved characteristics.
The owner of Agriculture and Water visited today in White, combined with the general director of Operations and Training Modernization of Agricultural Lidón Angel Garcia, director of the Instituto Murciano Agricultural Development and Food (IMID), Adrian Martinez, and Mayor Abarán Antonio Eugenio Gómez, the experimental farm where he developed the research on genetic improvement of table grapes conducted jointly by the Instituto Murciano Agricultural Development and Food (IMIDA) and the Society for Research and Technology Murcia Table Grape (Itum .)
The visit was attended by President APOEXPA (Association of Producers and Exporters of Fruits and Agricultural Products), Joaquin Gomez, and Vice President, Esther Gómez.
Cerda said the renewal varietal development and breeding of new varieties of seedless table grapes can have a unique offer in the region "with grapes tasty and attractive to the consumer and farming techniques for profitable and productive grower.
This project also aims to extend the season seedless table grapes to supplement the current production schedule, with varieties that equal or better quality to protected varieties currently on the market and to develop varieties resistant to the presence of pests and diseases.
In this regard, the Minister noted the success of these crops by the Clean Agriculture Program has achieved a "zero waste factor" in the regional table grapes.
Cerda said that since the project began six years ago, the Region of Murcia has become the leading producer and exporter of native varieties of seedless table grapes, "ahead of Valencia and Andalusia, and also well ahead of our main European rivals, Italy and Greece. "
He added that currently "there are five new varieties of seedless table grapes are ready to sign up and start to cultivate" qualities "so dear" as the flavor, crisp, good grain size and that require no special techniques for cultivation or excessive work producer and which are adapted to our climate.
In the Region of Murcia the surface of table grape cultivation is 5,500 hectares, the main varieties are Superior Seedless and Crimson Seedless, and production amounted to 100,000 tons with an economic value of 80 million euros.
Moreover, the Minister of Agriculture and Water Cieza visited the experimental farm of Novamed, who works in breeding programs and the development of new varieties of peach.
The Region of Murcia is Spain's leading producer of this fruit of bone.
From Novamed it comes to getting new varieties of its own that can compete with those produced in other regions.
During the tour, the delegation visited a crop of entrepreneurs abaraneros located in the town of Jumilla affected by rain and hail storm last Friday that destroyed much of the crop of plums and nectarines and other seasonal fruits.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Abarán
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