Peru: Agroideas to finance the adoption of technology for hass avocado

The Program of Competitiveness Compensations (Agroideas) from the Ministry of Agriculture (Minag) will deliver S/.489,040 to the Association of Agroindustrial Producers Siguas Majes - PRASIMEX, to adopt technology and encourage the production of avocado Hass, as pointed by Otilia Caro, responsible at Agroideas.

According to her, the incentive is equivalent to 70% of the implementation of the business plan, allowing an economic progress for associates, improving the profit trough the reconversion of 33 hectares of alfalfa and corn by Hass avocado.

According to the exposed, the objective is to reach a productivity of 18,000 tons per hectare by the sixth year of settlement. Bringing to PRASIMEX a standard product with an exportable quality, trough applying good agricultural practices like fertilization, prunes and plague control.

Even so, she sustains that the adoption of new technologies will allow to count on a better availability of avocado plants, guarded by eucalyptus to grow, watering bands, harvesting baskets and fertilizers.

"Thanks to the support, the association will receive also the technical assistance and the chance to have probatory periods in Chincha and Ica, cities where there are cases of success in the cultivation of Hass avocado", she concluded.

Source: agraria.pe