The report released on Thursday night on Smartcherry TV generated great expectations among the cherry industry; "Irrigation: the productive black box" was the title of the chapter that addressed, from different angles, irrigation and the relevance of this task in cherry production.
«A good irrigation strategy, a good irrigation schedule, are extremely relevant in cherry cultivation, obviously not only in the cultivation of this species, but in all agricultural crops, in all fruit species (…) irrigation is an important part of the comprehensive analysis of the success or failure of a production, considering that today all fertigation systems depend on a good irrigation strategy to be effective and efficient and so that all nutrients are better used by the root system., obviously, the plant distributes them to the organs of greatest demand, so irrigation is integrally linked to all the physiological processes of an orchard," said Carlos Tapia, specialist advisor in cherry production, and Technical Director of Avium.
To this, Tomás Vicente, Regional Manager of WiSeconn and member of the Board of Directors of Agryd, added: "70 percent of the productive result is associated only with irrigation."
The report addressed irrigation at different stages of the garden, with the end of the season being of great importance.
«Generally we should water our crops until the last days of March, except for some soils that are a little lighter, that have a little more presence of stones, which we should extend this until the first weeks of April», explained Diego Humeres, from the Irrigation and Climate Department of Avium.
The above is done in order to give a signal to the plant so that it begins the process of lignification of wood and fruit centers and can better cope with the winter cold.
«This management of stopping watering is directly related to the entry into dormancy, it is one of the important signals for the plant to understand, based on less water replacement, that it has to acclimatize and generate signals through this route so that its start of leaf fall occurs naturally.", Tapia added.
The report also included a look at the use of irrigation technologies and how cherry production has gradually been incorporated into precision irrigation; additionally, through the Irrigation and Drainage Trade Association, Agryd, and the National Irrigation Commission, CNR, the topic of water infrastructure, the Irrigation Law, among other topics, was addressed.
The episode, which was sponsored by Aquadetect, AG Business and GreenNetwork, is available on the Smartcherry TV YouTube channel.
