Breakthrough solution of breeding specialty crops

The Institute of Agricultural Genetics in collaboration with the Department of Science and Technology of Bac Kan province has successfully applied tissue culture technology to propagate Bac Kan taro.

The multiplication coefficient is three times higher than traditional methods, yielding 15% more than mass-produced sweet potatoes.

This is one of the breakthrough solutions in taro seed production, because it has eliminated the biggest difficulty is the potato breeding factor.

There have been more than 10,000 taro trees successfully propagated and tested in two districts of Cho Don and Bach Thong.

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From this success, the Institute of Agricultural Genetics has experimented on taro varieties of Phu Tho gold, Nho Quan native taro (Ninh Binh).

People expand the area, particularly Phu Tho yellow sweet potato, has increased 70% of the area, contributing to benefiting farmers hundreds of millions of dong each year.

Dr. Dang Trong Luong, Institute of Agricultural Genetics, said that this is the first project to successfully plant taro varieties bred from tissue culture to be put into mass production.

This technology has many preeminent features such as high propagation coefficient, active time of seedling production, and can recover and clean the disease of degenerative or infected taro varieties.

This method is a promising direction in the strategy of developing special economic crops with high economic value.

Dr. Luong recommends that, in order to put into mass production, people should plant taro at a density of 3.5-4.7 thousand trees / ha for the highest yield, of which the density of 4.7 thousand plants / ha for the largest total number of offspring.

The substrate is suitable for plant adaptation in addition to the natural conditions of black sand or alluvial soil mixed with coconut fiber. The mixture of alluvial soil, coconut fiber and manure is the most suitable for tasting taro trees.