Today, I should like to show you a very interesting video, about walnut trees. If you want to watch this video, please click on the link below:
http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/agrosfera/agr-laboratorio-nogales/3282137/
First, you can read: Native walnut trees and hazelnuts. Recovery project in Cantabria
Voice in off: “The project began, in 2009, with the aim to locate, preserve and characterize native hazelnuts and walnut trees of Cantabria. Six years later, the CIFA (Centre for Agricultural Research and Training) has a large variety registration, which can serve, as economical alternative, to ranchers and farmers”
Eva García Méndez (Researcher fron the CIFA. Centre for Agricultural Research and Training): ”We think that yes, it can be a perfect alternative, to diversify the rural economy and the weather is suitable, for this type of crop”
Voice in off: “The technicians of the Centre for Agricultural Research and Training range throughout Cantabria, looking indigenous species; in spring and summer, they are located; then they take samples from the fruit and, in the months of January and February, the cuttings are collected. This work has allowed characterize forty seven types of hazelnut and twenty nine of walnut, which are already bearing fruit”
Eva García Méndez: “This is an example of the variability of the fruit of hazelnut that exists; we have found from 30 to 40 different types of fruit. We have from hazelnut, which is thick, to hazelnut, lot more small and round”
Voice in off: “Every week, the technicians evaluate the characteristics of the models, which have a wide range in size, leaves and fruit. They are descriptors, that distinguish native hazelnut and walnut from commercial ones”
Carmen Siliuto (Technical assistance): “But we are measuring different descriptors of the plant, both leaves, and the seeds, inflorescences, branches, and we are doing throughout the entire life cycle stage of the fruit”
Carlos Murga (a worker in the CIFA. Centre for Research and Training): “Different, cause of fruit; different, too, the bearing; ... differents branches….., there are many differences”.
Ana Saiz Pintado (Editorial office Cantabria) (Voice in off): “In Cantabria, hazel grows, spontaneously, on the edges of farms, rivers and streams; although the climate of the region favors its cultivation, we only find models in small orchards. However, walnut requires more care and it is more prone to diseases. Although the appearance of its fruits is not very commercial, they are very tasty and appreciated”
Well, I hope that you have liked this video.
Until my next post, kind regards,
Luis.
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