We left CIMMYT (Mexico City) at 4am yesterday morning and traveled by bus to the air port where we flew to “Obregon” in the North West part of Mexico.
We meet with an association in Obregon who represent seven different unions of farmers, we had some great discussion with them and the traveled out to a local farming operation who grow large areas of potatoes.
We then traveled to another farm where we meet Hon who owned the farm, we saw a durum crop that looks like yielding 8 or 9 t per ha and the best chickpea crop I have ever seen. He expected a yield of around 3.5t ha, they were a Kabuli type.
We then ended up at a local restaurant at around 3pm for a late lunch and had a fantastic afternoon of eating and talking about Mexican agriculture.
This was the first time I have had lunch and when finished it is dark; we left there at around 8pm and made our way back to our accommodation.
We are heading out to CIMMYT’s Obregon operation this morning and have great expectation about what we may learn
We meet with an association in Obregon who represent seven different unions of farmers, we had some great discussion with them and the traveled out to a local farming operation who grow large areas of potatoes.
We then traveled to another farm where we meet Hon who owned the farm, we saw a durum crop that looks like yielding 8 or 9 t per ha and the best chickpea crop I have ever seen. He expected a yield of around 3.5t ha, they were a Kabuli type.
We then ended up at a local restaurant at around 3pm for a late lunch and had a fantastic afternoon of eating and talking about Mexican agriculture.
This was the first time I have had lunch and when finished it is dark; we left there at around 8pm and made our way back to our accommodation.
We are heading out to CIMMYT’s Obregon operation this morning and have great expectation about what we may learn
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