To date ONES HAVE PLANTED 30 FOR WHICH HECTARES HAVE USED ONES 300.000 PLANTS.
These are not good times for employment, nor for investment and, many experts, not for risk. However, COAGRISÁN, ventures in the campaign 2012/2013 more spirit, an increase in the surface and the introduction of new crops in.
Campaign seed and grafting is the activity that, along with packaging, It requires more labor for the meticulousness and precision of the process, which it is the guarantee of a good result.
To do this, the cooperative has hired COAGRISÁN eighty people who have joined the permanent staff for sowing, Pinching, grafts, entacados and auxialiares loose of insects for biological pest control.
Last week came the first crops three hundred thousand plants to cover a 30 hectares in which, for the first time, HE will apply the technique recirculation, plastic covers and the hydroponic substrate becomes coir.
From COAGRISÁN they explain that, despite the situation, it will not be a campaign of cuts, but rather optimization in terms of farm management in order to reduce costs, increase production and stabilize the low inputs.
The excellent results of the previous season, with respect to applying integrated control loose seedbeds, is repeated in order to ensure pest control whitefly and Tuta absoluta, which they have been the most virulent in recent years.
The plantations will continue throughout the month of August, providing have planted 95% COAGRISAN surface before the first week of September.
Expectations of the new campaign appear optimistic in the light of the results of the previous whose closure is done with the return. However, the crisis continues to hit other companies in the sector that disappear, It is on the island of Gran Canaria Bonny and COAGRISÁN the only two that maintain or even exceed the sales volume.