Create many new varieties of mass production in the South

The Southern Fruit Institute (SOFRI) has selected to create 11 new and high-quality plant varieties, recognized and put into mass production by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development for the key economic program. Southern province.

The high-quality plant varieties on time have contributed to raising the quality of plant varieties, meeting the demand of production in areas specializing in specialty fruit trees, specializing in commodity colors in the southern provinces, helping farmers to exploit the land potential to organize large-scale production, actively converting crops in the direction of diversifying seed structure, seasons . to get rich.

The outstanding fruit field is the seedless nectar orange, Long Dinh 1 red dragon fruit seed, Long Dinh 5 purple dragon fruit seed, the little orange leaf pomelo variety, Long Dinh 4 seed, the seedless orange seed variety. Long Dinh 6, variety of cayen pineapple Long Dinh 2. Vegetable crops with Long Dinh cucumber varieties 7, variety of Long Dinh Okra 8, Long Dinh chilli varieties 3. Fields of ornamental plants with yellow mutant chrysanthemum varieties Long Định 9, Long Định 10 coin flower .

According to the evaluation, the new plant varieties that the Southern Institute of Fruit Research successfully researched and bred into the production structure have many outstanding advantages in productivity, output, quality and market. Popularity. For example, Long Dinh 3 hybrid chilli has the advantages of easy to grow, less pests, suitable to the soil in the Mekong Delta and high productivity. Average yield of 40-50 tons / ha.

Farmers who are good at intensive farming reach 60 tons / ha. Long Dinh 5 purple flesh dragon fruit varieties are bred from red flesh dragon fruit with white flesh dragon fruit with outstanding advantages: firm flesh, beautiful color, high yield, can reach 40 tons / ha . Long Dinh 1 red flesh dragon fruit varieties have been cultivated for many years in many provinces: Binh Thuan, Dong Nai, Tien Giang, Long An . become a new source of export agricultural products of high economic value.

Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Minh Chau, Director of SOFRI said, from the above results, the Institute has promoted breeding programs with biotechnology to timely supply new plant varieties and help farmers Southern provinces overcome the restrictions on seed, always have more good varieties to produce high efficiency and increase the quality of agricultural products for export.

In the short term, in the period of 2012-2020, the Southern Fruits Institute will continue to study and select new key fruit varieties with many advantages of categories: orange, mandarin, pomelo, mango, pineapple, longan, and rambutan. rambutan, dragon fruit, durian, jackfruit, papaya .