Peru Midagri Implements Tender

Promoting an investment of more than 5.7 million soles the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation INIA of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation MIDAGRI implemented modern genetic resources laboratories in the districts of Campo Verde and Alexander Von Humboldt Ucayali region in order to boost the agricultural production of small and medium producers.The opening ceremony was chaired by the Vice Minister of Policies and Supervision of Agrarian Development of MIDAGRI Mara Isabel Remy Simatovic who highlighted that with these laboratories the sector guarantees the availability of technology for the producer to improve the quality of their crops. She was accompanied by the head of INIA Jorge Maicelo. We seek to strengthen family farming through articulated strategies through which the development of new technologies and the contribution of scientific research generate tools so that the small farmer can access competitive markets with quality crops he said. The new infrastructure installed at the INIA-MIDAGRIs Pucallpa Agrarian Experimental Station EEA has laboratories for soil water and plant tissues agricultural and forestry seeds genetic resources pest and disease management as well as multidisciplinary work rooms. the same ones that are implemented with state-of-the-art equipment.With this INIA-MIDAGRI will increase the execution of agricultural research and innovation projects that promote family farming development of new varieties of crops with high genetic quality technological packages for agronomic crop management genetic material to enhance livestock production among others.In the same way it will allow strengthening the transfer of technologies and technical knowledge on crop care in favor of small and medium farmers the conservation and valuation of the germplasm bank of roots and tubers such as sacha papa ashipa aerial potato huitina pituca yucca among others.The modern laboratory is part of the strategies promoted by INIA-MIDAGRI to modernize the Agricultural Experiment Stations EEA in order to promote the generation of agricultural technologies to contribute to the development of these activities in the regions. To date INIA-MIDAGRI has promoted an investment of more than 60 million soles to make 6 modern genetic resources laboratories available to farmers in the EEA located in the regions of San Martn Puno Cusco Lambayeque Lima in the Lima district and the province of Huaral.