According to Victor Garcia del Aguila, Syngenta's Pepper Portfolio Manager for Spain and Portugal, "In the case of Red California, Syngenta has the widest offer adapted to all of Murcia's market segments, be it for ecological cultivation, early, belated, with G-GG or GG-G calibre, for climate controlled greenhouses and always with dual resistance."
In this sense, Beniel completes this wide range: "Beniel has been tested at the pre-commercial level in the area and the results are excellent. It's a pepper with high yield and a very uniform fruit. The formation of the fruit begins at the initial fruit set, which is usually in cold conditions and in low light, but Beniel forms the perfect shaped fruit from the beginning, with its four lobes, and keeping them until the end of the cycle," said Victor Garcia.
With these features Beniel is a pepper with a very high commercial yield since the start of the campaign, from the first 3-4 kilos and maintaining its quality in the Summer cycle at high temperatures, it ripens red and is very consistent in the plant with heat.
Jose Luis Soto, a technician from Agrochemicals Triviños who is convinced of the variety's success conveys this same idea about the variety's quality: "Beniel is a Red California that has an almost triple G calibre. It is bigger than the calibre of the existing varieties and is very consistent. It has a tough skin and a vigorous plant, that yields many kilos without growing much."
Syngenta also has well known varieties of Red California such as Gazelle, which is highly regarded throughout the cycle but more notably from June, July and August because of how its cycle comes to an end. They also sell Enciso, which is perfectly adapted to organic farming because it is a more vigorous plant. Another outstanding variety for producers using climate control is Romero, which yields a very uniform calibre. And finally, the Aguila, which has consolidated throughout many campaigns, and Beromio, which is a benchmark in earliness.
Gepard and Loreto for Yellow Californian and Lamuyo
Farmers could also see crops of Gepard, a variety of Yellow California that is the most productive in Murcia and that is yielding better results every year, as farmers are improving their management and getting more performance.
When speaking about Lamuyo, as was confirmed by Victor Garcia del Aguila, Syngenta is the undisputed leader. "We have over 80% of the market share in lamuyo with varieties such as Herminio (which marks the benchmark of quality in all auctions in the area); Loreto, a very early variety with quality throughout the cycle and resistant to Tm3, which allows you to keep the length of the fruit; Almudén, which is the earliest since it is the first farmers start to cut, and Coraza with dual resistance and that is very productive and is positioning itself as a very versatile variety for producers since its smaller sizes are highly demanded at auctions, just as the larger California calibres.
Pepper is one of the crops where Syngenta's strategy of integrated management is more advanced and the newly developed varieties are already adapted to plant health products as well as to the auxiliary fauna. Thus taking advantage of the synergies between the plant's genetic resistances, the biological control and the use of plant health solutions so as to offer high quality peppers.
