USES AND POSSIBILITY OF CULTIVATION OF SAYA (Amoreuxia spp.) IN THE NORTHWEST OF MEXICO

Abstract

Saya (Amoreuxia spp.) was a plant consumed by ethnic groups in the past and by the first colonizers, but even today, in regions of the northwest of Mexico it is still consumed. Two species of the genus Amoreuxia are listed in NOM-O59- SEMARNAT-2010: A. palmatifida and A. wrightii. Despite the recognition for several decades of its potential as a food, as fodder for fauna or domestic livestock, its importance in the functioning of the ecosystem, its medicinal use and possible ornamental use; Many aspects of propagation, growth and productivity under the agronomic management of the saya are unknown. In this work the results of growth and productivity of A. palmatifida are shown under experimental botanical garden soil with drip irrigation. Extrapolating our results to agricultural conditions, we estimate a productivity of 20,000 tuberous saya roots per hectare and 3,100,000 seeds per hectare. With these results we can think that it is viable germination and production strategies in agricultural plots with drip irrigation, previous obtaining of the corresponding permits on the SEMARNAT, which could allow obtaining propagules, both from tuberous roots and saya seeds, to be used in the ecological restoration of degraded lands or for harvesting programs as a new crop.