This is the
researcher from the National Institute of Agrarian Innovation, Alicia Medina
Hoyos, who will be recognized with the "500 Years Award" awarded for
her work in innovation
The academic
and researcher, Alicia Medina Hoyos, will be recognized with the "500
Years Prize" awarded by the Chilean Government in the framework of the
commemoration of the half-millennium of the Strait of Magellan.
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It should be
noted that these innovative actions are linked to the recognition they make to
personalities from different countries.
Thus, the counselor of the Chilean Embassy in Peru, Abraham Quezada, pointed out that the award is given to those who carry out innovative work as a contribution to society.
“It is a recognition that is given to those who dared to do something different for the benefit of the community. Santiago estimated that the engineer Alicia Medina, due to her work on agricultural innovation, met the standards, also required by the jury, ”he said.
For his
part, Medina Hoyos thanked the recognition of the work he has been doing with purple
corn.
“I am pleasantly surprised, happy that they value the innovation in purple corn. It encourages me to continue working for the institutional, personal, and producer good of Peru, ”he said.
Through
participation in the competitive funds of the National Agrarian Innovation
Program of the INIA, Medina Hoyos carried out the research in 6 varieties to
determine not only the levels of anthocyanin in the panca, crown, or cob but
also the yield of purple corn. With the study, it was determined that the
superior variety was INIA 601.
The technological alternative to the purple corn variety
Thanks to
the research where it was established as a technological alternative to the
purple corn variety INIA 601 due to its high yield and content of anthocyanins
beneficial to health, the agronomist obtained the 2019 Summum Prize.
