New agricultural concepts

“Ecosystem-based adaptation”, which is the use of biodiversity and ecosystem services as part of a comprehensive strategy to adapt to the adverse effects of climate change, includes conservation, restoration and sustainable management of natural and anthropogenic ecosystems to help people adapt to climate change.

This whole group of good practices leads us to a point that defines productivity as the engine of a sustainable crop that avoids unnecessary soil erosion and greater satisfaction at the crop level, but this requires not only training and use of good agricultural practices, but also the use of agricultural techniques and innovations that allow us to explore and optimally exploit the soil without damaging it, which will help us to be more efficient without sacrificing our main resource.

Problemas por musgo en las plantaciones de cacao
Moss problems on cocoa plants

Moss appears on the #cacao tree when there is a humid environment and lack of light. These directly affect the cocoa plant, since they reduce the yield of the flower bearings and thus the production. To avoid these problems, we must carry out a sanitary control of mosses and lichens in the plantations manually, to […]

Nutrientes
Nutrients needed in cocoa production

Potassium (K), nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P), as well as secondary elements such as calcium (Ca), sulfur (S) and magnesium (Mg), which are involved in the metabolism of the plant, are among the nutrients most absorbed by cocoa during its useful life. It is important during cocoa production to perform annual or biannual soil analyses […]

Cocoa pods harvest
When to harvest cocoa?

The fruits or cocoa pods are harvested when they reach physiological maturity, i.e. they have a large amount of sugars already formed. This usually occurs between 5 and 6 months after flowering, but it will depend on many factors, but especially climatic factors.   The main characteristic of a ripe fruit is the change of […]