Application of innovative technologies to improve the use and marketing of the native Galician chestnut

This Operational Group is aimed at the Galician chestnut production sector with the main objectives of solving the problem detected by the sector regarding the lack of availability of a homogeneous product and putting a stop to the increasingly frequent incidence of chestnut ink disease.

Through innovative technologies, the aim is to obtain sufficient production to supply the market with differentiated quality adapted to market needs.

This would be possible through two main actions: protecting native chestnut plants that are sensitive to ink with suitable rootstocks that improve compatibility with the variety and therefore the future viability of the preservation/profitability binomial; and developing innovative methodologies that allow a distinction to be made between the various chestnut species and their corresponding hybrids.