for: Uniradio Informs – 31 January 2022, 05:26 pm
MEXICALI.- This Tuesday, February 1, date producers from the Mexicali Valley will participate in the conference “Pollination Methods and Date Palm Fertilization Program”, as announced by the Representative of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in Baja California, Engineer Juan Manuel Martínez Núñez.
He commented that the event will take place starting at 9:00 in the morning, at the facilities of the Center for Training, Research and Agricultural and Agrifood Innovation (CCIAA), which is located in the Ejido Sinaloa, in the Valley of Mexicali .
The official specified that at the beginning of this cycle of conferences, organized by the Date Product System of Baja California (SIPRODA BC), the Ministry of Agriculture through the National Institute of Forest, Agricultural and Livestock Research (INIFAP), will participate with the subject Date Palm Fertilization Program, which will be exposed by the Doctor and Researcher, Antonio Morales Maza.
He explained that in addition to this theme, the Doctor and professor of the State University of Sonora (UES), Ricardo Salomón Torres, will speak about the Methods of Pollination in the Date Plant.
To conclude, the Secretary of the Field and Food Safety (SCSA) will develop two presentations related to the Commercialization and the Financing schemes of the crop, which will be treated by Lic. Fernando Félix Moss and Carlos Enrique Silva Robles, Director of Business Development of the Field. and Director of FOGABAC, respectively.
Due to the importance of the topics that will be addressed, the head of SADER, Martínez Núñez, invites the producers of the fruit to attend this conference, with the aim of updating their knowledge about this crop that is strengthened every year in the agricultural fields of the Rural Development District 002, Río Colorado –Valle de Mexicali-.
Finally, he clarified that during 2021, 938 hectares of dates were harvested, which together generated a production of 8,179 tons of the fruit. The average yield per hectare recorded throughout the Valley was 8,720 tons per hectare; while the production value exceeded $601.6 million pesos, approximately.
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