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The mayor of Mazarrón, Francisco Blaya, and the Minister of Agriculture and Community Water, Antonio Cerdá, accompanied by the Regional Director of Cajamar, Bartholomew Survivor, have closed the "I Technical Seminar of Tomato Cultivation Alternatives."
Today has been a day that has passed a great deal of strength and hope to nearly two hundred farmers, technicians and entrepreneurs in the municipality, who work in agriculture.
In this event professionals have known the alternatives to the cultivation of tomatoes are subtropical fruit, table grapes, citrus, peach, nectarine and loquat.
In this "I Technical Seminar on Alternatives to Growing Tomato 'CEOs have participated in the Ministry of Agriculture of the community, researchers and technicians Murciano Research Institute and Agricultural Development and Food (IMIDA) and the Experimental Station Foundation Cajamar.
Throughout the day many papers have been given, IMIDA researchers have described the outcome of R & D projects related to new varieties of table grapes, peaches and nectarines as well as the potential for early varieties and cultivation midseason citrus achieve higher market prices.
On the other hand Cajamar Foundation experts have detailed feasibility as medlar and persimmon fruit, subtropical and avocado, cherimoya and mango.
However, professionals are priority pre-screen adaptation and crop cycle in this area as well as economic gains to the market.
At noon Blaya and Cerdá have closed the "I Technical Seminar of Tomato Cultivation Alternatives', organized by the council of Agriculture of the City of Mazarrón, Ardil Salvador, in collaboration with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Autonomous Community and Cajamar.
In closing, both as Cerdá Blaya have agreed on a firm commitment to the modernization of farms and new alternative to the tomato crop, the keys to welcome a way to understand regional agriculture.
Francisco Blaya said that "the municipality of Mazarrón has lived for many years of tomato cultivation in order to strengthen their success, should be complemented with alternative crops to ensure economic wealth."
In this regard, Antonio Cerda has stressed the need to introduce new crops to overcome the current crisis in Mazarrón tomato "can not focus on a single crop, but we have to diversify production and supply with alternative crops."
For Cerda "the future of tomato passes through this area assess the technical possibilities for the modernization of greenhouses and successfully applied in countries like Holland."
Source: Ayuntamiento de Mazarrón
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