PRESENTACIÓN DEL PRODUCTOR DE APOYO/SUPPORT PRODUCTOR'S PRESENTATION
El productor nos comento que empezó a cultivar la tuna hace 5 años, los primeros años fue muy difícil ya que no es un cultivo que se puede manejar fácilmente debido a las espinas y a que este aun no era intensivo.
Ahora hay mayor información sobre como llevar el cultivo esto en cuanto a los abonos, insecticidas, foliares, los periodos de aplicación de estos, las estaciones en las cuales se debe infestar las tunas con el insecto y también los periodos en los que se debe recoger o cosechar.
The producer that he/she offered to help us is the farming Carlos Ocola Arenas that is devoted to the cochineal cultivation and it is seated in the Irrigation San Isidro second establishment (district of the jewel); whose properties are numbered with 2C-89 2B-79. Both add 6 hectares of land of those which approximately 3 hectares are with the cultivation of tunas for the development of the insect, this part of the region where they are both properties it is very appropriate for the cultivation of this insect since present a benign climate and the lands have special chemical compounds that support to the proliferation of the cochineal. For it most of capable lands for the cultivation in this irrigation is sowed of tuna.
The producer comments us that it began to cultivate the tuna 5 years ago, the first years it was very difficult since it is not a cultivation that you can manage easily due to the thorns and to that this not yet was intensive.
Now there is bigger information on as taking the cultivation this as for the payments, insecticides, foliares, the periods of application of these, the stations in which it should be infested the tunas with the insect and also the periods in those that it should be picked up or to harvest.