University of Peto harvest corn and peanuts
PETO.— In order to produce a scientific article that can be published and shared with producers in the region, yesterday began with the harvest of peanuts and corn of the Naal Xoy variety, which students of the Sustainable and Protected Agriculture career are working on. .
Efraín Castillo López reported that in the case of peanuts, the harvest was 15 plants, five for each treatment that was applied from sowing to harvest.
The objective of the harvest is to analyze which of the methods are more effective so that better results can be obtained and in due course make the corresponding recommendation to the producers.
“The height of the plants, the weight of the foliage, the weight of peanuts per plant, and the number of peanuts produced by each plant will be analyzed and with these results, we will have information to share,” explained Castillo López.
In the case of corn, four types of treatment were applied, in the first a kit of microbiological products was applied, the second was a banana peel extract (organic fertilization), the third was a DAP fertilizer and in the fourth it was not applied nothing.
The mentor pointed out that the students will make a technical report with the results they are collecting to publish a scientific article.
The students who grow corn are María Selene Sabido Vera and Luis Donaldo Aké Avilés, both from engineering, and those who are completing the project are Érika Gabriela May Uc and Erik Alejandro Hoo Herrera. In the case of peanuts, those who carry out the project are Carlos Manuel Chi Baas, Miguel Arcángel Chi Hernández and Brenda Jaqueline Catzín Chan.— miguel angel moo góngora
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