DIFERENTES CLONES DE PIMENTA MALAGUETA EM URUTAÍ: ADAPTAÇÃO PRODUTIVA EM QUALIDADE E QUANTIDADE

Abstract

ABSTRACT DIFFERENT CLONES OF CHILI PEPPER IN URUTAÍ: PRODUCTIVE ADAPTATION IN QUALITY AND QUANTITY. Abstract: Although the culture of chili peppers has great importance in the Brazilian diet, perhaps due to the influences of Europeans and Africans who made up our history, there are few research works that aim to select and indicate cultivars for different regions of the country. This is one of the main problems faced by producers: the lack of knowledge about the most appropriate genetics for a given region. The present work had as objective to compare productive characteristics, in terms of quantity and quality, of different chili pepper clones in the municipality of Urutaí, inserted in the railroad region of the state of Goiás. Certain evaluated characters (such as productivity, number of fruits in 200ml and number of locules / fruit) were similar between the three different chili pepper clones. On the other hand, the weight of 100 fruits with and without peduncle, the length of the fruit without peduncle, the diameter and the thickness of the fruit were significantly different between clones 3835, 2744 and 3462 of chili peppers. The present work suggests that producers of chili peppers in the region of Urutaí, Goiás, who market their product through weight should prioritize the production of clone 3462 to obtain greater financial margins.