Located 40 km from the International Airport in Guatemala City , Guatemala , we can incur Pegón InVitro ® ( PIV ) , a recently inaugurated tissue paper civilization laboratory . Through opening this research lab , Popoyán - a Guatemalan agrarian companionship founded in 1976 - aims to thrive its services both on the Guatemalan and the outside market place . " The few tissue culture research lab in Guatemala are private and dish up internal need only . This is the first commercial tissue culture lab at this scale leaf that has been built to support national and international customers , " says Fredy Romero , laboratory manager at Popoyán . In this clause , he and Francisco Viteri , General Manager of Popoyán share more detailed information about the new science laboratory .
The PIV laboratory in Guatemala
What ’s in it?The PIV laboratory produces various harvest such as ornamental , banana , plantain , berries , coffee , agave , and others . According to Popoyán , in the first phase , the laboratory has a production capacity of 10 million plants ; 5 million through the traditional tissue paper culture output method , and 5 million plants through the Temporary Immersion Bioreactor ( TIB ) proficiency .
The research lab is also equipped to utilise techniques such as bodily embryogenesis . Romero put forward : " It is built with modern infrastructure and equipped with state - of - the - art technology , such as climatic chamber , light-emitting diode tram , media preparatory , and a specialised temporary submersion bioreactor room . The destination of this project is to significantly increase the production mental ability in a short meter physical body . In crops such as ornamental , bananas , and plantains , the PIV applied science allows to produce elite materials and disease - detached plants . "
An notion of the PIV laboratory and its equipment
A close - shore up strategyViteri lend : " This new tissue culture lab respond to our near - shoring strategy , which allows Popoyán to significantly trim back shipping price and time . Guatemala is strategically located near the US Market and has very near logistic connections to the European Market . However , progressively rigid Phytosanitary restrictions regarding the transportation of flora material from one state / continent to the other are push growers to reproduce their starter cloth in tissue polish . Guatemala ’s climate is well suitable for the production of several crop , both in the loose field and in greenhouses .
However , elect materials tend to come from tissue civilisation laboratory in Europe , Africa , or Asia . This unexampled laboratory intends to complement the portfolio of seedlings that are bring out to meet the grow requirement that is being generated in the domestic and international markets . In addition , high shipping costs and prospicient manner of speaking meter are pushing growers to search for other choice nearer to their production site and their market . "
A team is at employment in the PIV science lab
" Our objective is to contribute crop starting motor textile , descale it up in Guatemala , and deliver it to product sites in Guatemala , the US , and Europe . This will importantly bring down shipping costs and time . In other words , the new laboratory provide us with competitive advantages : faster adaptability , the agility to scale up , and the possibility to deliver faster to customers .
But not only that . It also contributes to Popoyán ’s biotechnology hub . This hub is a biotech campus that unites player into a one - stop consonant shop construct where we can ply more services for breeders and producers . For instance , baby’s room , gentility , phytopathology diagnostics , and molecular mark services . Moreover , the new laboratory facilitate us to reduce our CO2 step , " he continues .
Some of the crop that are bring about in the PIV research laboratory
" To acquaint our tissue cultivation science lab and the service we offer , we will take part at Greentech in Amsterdam , and civilize in Ohio where we will be able to interact with client . We are also signing strategic partnerships with a tissue paper culture science laboratory in the Netherlands that will support us in that part of the Earth . So far , the market response to this projection has surpassed our expectations , " he reason .
For more information : Ignacio ViteriPopoyán(502 ) 4004482111 avenida 37 - 80 zona 11 Colonia Las CharcasGuatemala C.A[email protected]www.popoyan.com
