Río Raya

Fertilizer and ground cover with nitrogen fixing species. There is cacao because there is a lot of maintenance that was done.

1,5 ha

3x per year maintenance is needed at this point. The trees are 5 years old. To add fertilizer, to cut some branches and to clean the trees so the climbing green soil cover doesn't climb the trees. They add biological fertilizer with beneficial microorganisms. The fertilizer used is organic.

No wood trees, but he planted pacae and palt in the edges.

He doesn't plant trees in his plot because it makes the tree weak and sensitive to diseases. He is selling to the social company of amarcy

There is a lot of disease in cacao, so a lot of people don't want to plant. But with a lot of maintenance you can control the diseases. That's why this example plot is so important,to show that it can be controlled. He does poda and removes the diseased cacao from the fieldRead more