Conference on plant and soil management in Liebig
herbalists Over 40 producers participated in the day in Colonia Liebig.
With the assistance of more than 40 producers in the north of the province, was carried out on a farm in Colonia Liebig, a technical conference in yerba mate, organized by the delegation of the Ministry Production of Currents in the locality and the technical team Liebig Cooperative Limited, regarding the management of the plant and soil. On the journey
lots in showing where various practices were implemented from 2008 with different treatments, according to the needs of each farm. Since then, we evaluate the result of the practice through measured fields yield year after year. One of the findings observed is that the care of the plant when harvesting is done, allow 20 to 30% of leaves so that the plant functions continue normally and not "spend" the lack of accumulated reserves to generate new outbreaks. Is fundamental this first stage, the recovery of productive capacity of each plant.
The farm where the work is being carried out of the Hauck family, on whose farm demonstration plots were installed since 2008 to implement technologies aimed at improving plants and was incorporating soil management, whereas more than 50 crop years to return anything to Earth. For this reason, we turned to winter covers, in this case black oats (strigosa) and rye grass.
During the day, topics included plant management, harvesting (cutting type), replacement of plants (observation of results), pruning (two prune) cleaning and pruning. It worked on the plantation soil management and recovery of streets.
