Treaty history
The Technical Table of Quinoa of Ayacucho (MTQA) in Peru, signed an institutional cooperation agreement with the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation (INIA) in Ayacucho, August 7, 2022. In order to boost the production of certified quinoa seed from genetic seed at the Agricultural Experimental Station of CANAAN. This in order to improve the seed in the region and ensure the productivity and yield of the crop.
Objective of quinoa seed improvement
With this initiative, both institutions seek to promote and promote the transfer of technology and methodologies on the production process of quinoa seedbeds, in favor of the MTQA partners through training and activities in seed management; since, this process involves a differentiated and specialized management.
This first agreement contemplates the installation of 0.5 ha of quinoa seed, 0.30 ha of the variety INIA 415 – Pasankalla and 0.20 of the variety INIA 420 – Negra Collana. Its production costs will be covered at 50% by MTQA partners and the other 50% by INIA. For that reason, the final product will be distributed in the same proportion.
Conclusions of quinoa seed improvement
ASPAGRO and other companies associated with the MTQA consider that seed is a strategic input within agriculture. So, through regulatory mechanisms we seek to obtain from the authority in Seeds (INIA) a good quality quinoa seed that meets 4 qualities:
- Physical purity, ensures that the seed retains the shape, uniformity in weight and appearance of the variety, has no damage and impurities.
- Phytosanitary quality, guarantees that the seed is not a carrier of any pest or is contaminated with weed seeds.
- Genetic quality, guarantees varietal purity, its conditions of adaptation to various ecological floors, its vegetative cycle and its nutritional qualities
- Physiological quality, guarantees the viability of the seed to germinate even under adverse conditions, and show uniformity of the plants in the field.
