|
- Natural phytosanitary Barriers for the agricultural production; Chile is isolated by the Desert of Atacama by the North, the Antarctic Territory by the South, the Andes Mountains by the East and Pacific Ocean by the West, defenses that protect it of the main plagues and diseases that affect the strawberry culture in other countries, among them Xantomonas and Antracnosis.
- Suitable conditions of the region respect to latitude and altitude, with climate of marked seasons that allows fulfilling the requirements of photoperiod and temperature, for an appropriate natural chilling accumulation, favor the production of strawberry plants.
- Soils and waters free of contamination.
- Light texture soils, apt for the plants propagation with an excellent radicular development.
- A very special condition occurs due to the Chile location, in the South Hemisphere. The plants in nursery are harvested in winter, soon are conserved in cold store (frigid conservation) during about eight months, to be planted soon in summer. During this plants conservation period their metabolism reduce to the maximum, nevertheless is inevitable that use an important part of their reserves (carbohydrates) in decline of their later productivity. As Chile is in the South Hemisphere, this harvest is made in June to August and can be transported to the North Hemisphere and arrive in the period of the plantation (August to November), with a plant just harvested, with its complete productive potential, reducing in addition the high costs to this storage.
- Existence of an official phytosanitary organism (SAG) that it controls very close by all the stages of the nurseries and is very rigorous in his inspections, guaranteeing of this form the results.
- Availability of suitable technologies and qualified label.
- It’s possible to extend the plantation period using our plants.
|
STRAWBERRY NURSERY
