Director of INIA: "In agriculture, what used to be an attribute today is a requirement"

This was indicated by Patricio Fuenzalida, at the opening of the 2020 Challenges Seminar for Sustainable Fruit Production held in Quillota and organized by the Strategic Regional Program for Sustainable Fruit Growing for the Valparaíso Region (Perfruts)

Great interest aroused the 2020 Challenge Seminar for sustainable fruit growing in the Valparaíso Region. The event held in Quillota brought together a significant number of people, including authorities, producers and farmers in the region.

The event included the presentation of four experts in innovation and sustainability, presentations in which valuable information was shared about trends in innovation, technology and sustainability, and also about the tools available us in the market to develop more efficient and successful gardens and crops.

PERFRUTS seeks to develop a strategic fruit innovation plan that allows the use of technology to implement precision irrigation, agrometeorological stations that anticipate palliative measures, soil moisture sensors, collaborative relationships between producers, exporters and agricultural communities, among others.

At the opening of the seminar, CORFO executive Pablo Díaz stated: “Today the markets demand other attributes in the products they consume and that is why the PER sustainable fruit growing wants to anticipate the trends of the global market. Technology allows us to bet on an innovative and sustainable agricultural production that takes care of the environment and promotes fair work and CORFO has been supporting the program from day one. "

Aspect that was also highlighted by Patricio Fuenzalida, regional director of INIA. “What used to be an attribute in agriculture is us a requirement, which forces us to permanently seek greater innovation in our production processes, he said.

Hugo Poblete, from SOFRUCO, spoke about the company's experience in the implementation of precision irrigation, identifying and monitoring soil temperatures, which has allowed them to increase the productivity and profitability of their crops, for this they have developed the use of sensors of ambient temperature and humidity of the soils, that facilitate the information of which sectors of the orchard require more or better irrigation.

For his part, Maximiliano Letelier, executive director of Corporación Reguemos Chile, in his theme "Water Road for Chile, Agro-Food Power" clearly expressed that all predictive models anticipate that drought periods will be longer and more frequent in the future and that there will also be an increase in temperatures, which forces us to look for urgent solutions to better use the water resource in our country. "Today There is already a consensus regarding the urgency to build more embals connected to a waterway that allows us to have a resource that will be increasingly scarce in our agriculture and thus take advantage of rainwater and water from thaws. "

Leonel Fernández de Agromet, along with highlighting how important it is for the agricultural sector, and especially fruit growing, having agroclimatic information that allows decision-making in agriculture, made an agro-climatological analysis of the Valparaíso Region, delivering Interpreted data of the repeated behavior of frosts and extreme heat that occurred in the Region in certain months and weeks in recent years.

In the regulatory field, Pablo Catrian from CORFO addressed the issue of the innovation and development law in process, which refers to the tax benefits available to companies that invest in research.

The next January 31, a new version of the 2020 Challenges Seminar will be held, but this time in the city of Petorca, where a large call for agricultural producers from the Province of Petorca is expected. The 2020 Challenge Seminar for fruit growing in the Valparaíso Region was organized by the Fruit Growing Strategic Program with the support of CORFO and the Regional Government of Valparaíso.

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