Sinaloa.- In order to lower production costs which is being one of the problems that hit the profitability of the field in the entity and also increase the production of the landSinaloa is working on having a corn hybrid seed generated in the state, announced Ramsés Meza, president of Fundación Produce.
He explained that currently the corn seeds that are planted in the lands of Sinaloa are imported from other countries, a situation for which their costs have been increasing, for which reason work is being done through the progenitors of the hybrids that are they sow and have had good yields, to integrate a seed that has the conditions required in the farmland.
He stated that what is sought is a seed that is 50 percent or even 70 percent cheaper than the one that is currently purchased, that is resistant to the high temperatures that Sinaloa has and resists the hydric stress that is occurring due to the drought, that has tolerance to common pests of the state, that generates production of good volumes and above all quality in production.
The president of Fundación Produces added that in order to determine the performance of this hybrid seed, there are experimental cultivation plots in different parts of the state, such as Ahome, Guasave, Sinaloa de Leyva and Culiacán, taking into account Sierra, coastal and central state to determine all the features needed to improve the state’s agricultural performance.
“Possibly we have to choose a hybrid for the different parts of Sinaloa depending on how it behaves, but the ideal would be to find a hybrid that is stable in all parts of the state and be able to work on that material,” he reiterated.
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Regarding the estimation that there will be concrete results of a hybrid seed for the state, he said that it is expected that in a period of around 3 to 4 years the results of the investigations that are currently being carried out will be ready.
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