A researcher at the National Institute for Forestry, Agriculture and Livestock (INIFAP) Mirafuentes Felipe Hernandez, adding that the new hybrid is already assessed in Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco and Michoacán.
He explained that to create a new genotivo seven selfings required from parents to achieve homogenization “and once so, it is the cross, you see the result and evaluated in different places.” In an interview with Notimex, said that the new variety does not have a name and is known as MS by Jota. His parents are the selection Maradol Tabasco and Jack, a landrace that was collected in the municipality of Nacajuca said.
In this cross, the new hybrid inherited the latter variety resistance and a good time by the type shelf Maradol he added. “And that makes accepting the merchant and the consumer, so it should be given some time to shelf can be transported and marketed nationally,” he said. He also said that their parents will provide qualities such as tolerance to high temperatures during flowering and fruiting, and resistance to pests and diseases.
According to the experimental field tests in Apatzingán INIFAP, Michoacán, the hybrid MS by Jota presented yields of 132 tonnes of fruit per hectare, while the Maradol were 71 tonnes per hectare. Thus, he added, the new hybrid can increase domestic production of papaya 53.7 percent, when the national average is 50.11 tonnes per hectare.
Mirafuentes Hernandez said for creating and testing new hybrid already being eight years of research, so you could soon jump in the domestic market. He said that the generation of the variety “Papaya Azteca” which today is sold in Mexico and abroad, which is creative, recorded a 10-year period to end. The seed is sown and germinated 15 days to be taken to nursery one month and then to the field, he added.
From there the three or four months Florea, pollination is done in four months and is suitable for harvest, he said. He said the product weight is 1.6 kilograms on average, similar to the variety Maradol, “maybe a little bigger and darker than the parent inherits her mother who is the variety line jot or iota”.
The taste is sweet and can be grown throughout the year, as tolerate the high temperatures in the tropical region of the country, he said. The researcher, who works in the INIFAP based Huimanguillo township, said that in terms of cost of sales, is similar to Maradol could trade, between 10 and 12 pesos per kilo.
According to figures from Information Service Food and Fisheries, only in Michoacán are sown more than two thousand hectares of papaya, with an average yield of 32.3 tonnes per hectare and a production of 42 000 777 tonnes. Mexico is the fifth largest producer of papaya, with a volume of 712 000 917 tonnes, whose value is estimated at two billion 656 000 237 pesos. It is also the largest exporter of fruit, with 104 000 681 kilograms, whose main market is the United States.
Source: Diario de Campeche