tradicionalmenteinovador - Brazil Buyers & Sellers

Researcher Fábio Suinaga, of Embrapa Vegetables, presented
the enhancement program started by the corporation for
the development of new crispy and American lettuce varieties,
which account for 65% and 20% of all sales, respectively. They
shall also comply with all tropicalization requirements, as well
as with matters related to organic management practices.
Still with regard to the market, professor Fernando César
Sala pointed to the bottleneck of the sales system, deemed old
fashioned and responsible for huge production losses. “The
product is still transported in wood boxes (k Box) and there is
no cold chain”, he noted. What also deserved attention was the
destination of lettuce for processing, a sector now on the rise
and highly exacting, at which, according to researcher Jony Eishi
Yuri, of Embrapa Semiarid, in Petrolina (PE), the system now
in use , with plastic cover, ferti-irrigation and imported seed
presents a very high cost.
Inor Ag. Assmann
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