Acompañamiento técnico en el cultivo de cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) en el área de sanidad vegetal en la empresa Luker Agrícola S.A.S, en la vereda La Camarga Leche Miel municipio de Villanueva, departamento de Casanare.

Abstract

In the company Luker Agrícola S.A.S. in Villanueva - Casanare, they have a lot of new personnel who do not have constant training and supervision of the agronomic tasks that are carried out in the cultivation of cocoa such as: pruning, weed control and fruit removal, due to this, the objective of this The project was to provide technical support to the operators of the cocoa crop (Theobroma cacao L.) in the area of plant health at the company Luker Agrícola S.A.S. An evaluation of the mentioned criteria was carried out (pruning: Plant architecture, plant with lower branches, plants with high cuts, plants with suckers and unhealed plants; weed control: cut plant and plant without silvering and removal of fruits: diseased cob unremoved, unharvested mature cob and harvested green cob), by means of 10 workers. Each criterion was monitored during and after the work, evaluating the work in 50 cocoa plants taken at random in 5 lots. The results indicate that after 6 months of training and supervision, 100% of the workers meet the company's requirement of the limit score for poor quality, which corresponds to 3%. Therefore, it is recommended that the company Luker Agrícola S.A.S. that workers must always be trained and supervised in all the agronomic tasks of cocoa cultivation, since the poor quality of the criteria evaluated by them is reduced.