UPL Chile, in its ongoing commitment to the fruit sector, held a technical meeting entitled “Update on the use of growth regulators in cherry trees” at the Hotel Villa el Descanso, Curicó. The event was attended by prominent exhibitors and producers from the region, who shared key knowledge to improve the quality and caliber of cherries in the current season.
Fernanda Illanes, Crop Leader for Fruits at UPL Agro Chile, highlighted the importance of this initiative: “The activity was focused on supporting producers with available strategies to stimulate the size of cherry fruit. This means that producers get to know the functions of the different phytohormones that are involved in the first stages of development and that will be the ones that will mainly influence the final size of the cherry.”
The meeting was attended by Marlene Ayala, a professor at the Catholic University and an expert in plant physiology, who stressed the importance of the sustainable alternatives offered by UPL: “It is a tremendous contribution to the industry, since UPL has a line of quite natural products, some of them of organic origin, which allow for much more sustainable fruit growing. Combined with other agronomic management strategies, these options enhance the caliber and quality of production.”
Samuel Rodríguez, regional manager of Cultiva, a strategic partner of UPL, added: “These types of technical meetings are extremely important, because in this case, our partner UPL provides producers with tremendous technical support, with university professors such as Marlene Ayala and Luis Valenzuela, who provide an important physiological basis for the use of products, which also allows producers to make better decisions.”
For his part, Luis Valenzuela, a specialist advisor on cherry production, highlighted the importance of collaboration between the industry and producers: “Today there is an important integration between companies that produce agricultural inputs and the industry, since they also depend on the industry to function and good results go hand in hand, such as carrying out this type of initiatives to inform producers.”
This meeting is part of a series of meetings that UPL Chile will continue to organize throughout the cherry season, with the aim of continuing to provide technical support and relevant updates to producers of the crop.
