Guanajuato, Gto., January 6, 2016.- With the objective to achieve a greater production and yield of the strawberry grown in the Bajío, the professors from the Department of Agronomy from the Division of Life Sciences in Campus Irapuato-Salamanca, Dr. Fidel René Díaz Serrano, develops two projects in the growing methods of strawberries in greenhouses.
One of Dr. Díaz Serrano's projects was the experimentation on the effects the arsenic has in well water in growing strawberries in a system where the culture nourishment and its environmental conditions are controlled.
The result form this experiment, proved that under the effects of watering with arsenic, the strawberry approximately 40% less yield; while in the system with the growing method developed by Dr. Díaz, it has shown that the strawberry has a potential yield of 250 tons per hectare, since the use of other growing systems the yield is from 100 to 120 tons per hectare.
It is important to mention that such results have been published in several scientific magazines, as well as in international congresses. In the same way, they have contributed to the knowledge of countries such as Spain, France, Israel and Egypt.
The other project in process is the development of a platform that will move by rails, with the purpose to achieve a greater density of plants in the greenhouse. An increase in the production of strawberries is expected from this system, since a greenhouse does not have this system they grow 80,000 strawberries per hectare, once the system is implemented, it elevates to 160,000 per hectare.
There is no waste of resources in the greenhouse coordinated by Dr. Díaz, since it seeks to produce with available elements, an example is the water recycling that after watering is collected in gutters, then channeled to containers and then used to water strawberry fields.
This project has received the visit from students and researchers from different institutions, cities and countries, because it is interesting to know the result from the research work done by college students.
