Unos 200 productores de yuca de áreas rurales de la provincia de Veraguas se han propuesto conquistar el mercado europeo con la exportación de este tubérculo y sus derivados.
Además, proyectan sacarle un beneficio extra para que a futuro se convierta en la materia prima para la producción de etanol para biocombustible.
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Hotel Pincoffs, the greenest hotel in Holland and located the heart of Rotterdam, is planting trees for each guest using the meeting rooms in the hotel. By doing this Hotel Pincoffs wants to compensate its CO2 footprint and create a actual forrest by time. The reforestation project of Agro2 has been selected to plant the [...]
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Suitehotel Pincoffs is a boutique hotel in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and is well known for its green aspirations and original marketing activities. Hotel Pincoffs plants a tree for each guest, complimentary and Agro2 is their partner for the actual planting of the trees, which will be done in Agro2′s project in Panama. Agro2 developed a [...]
In order to the development of a new area of about 100 hectares with cassava production, Agro2 decided to invest in a cassava planter and uprooter. The supplier of the machines is the Brazilian company, PlantiCenter. With the new equipment, Agro2 will be able to develop and manage the plantations in a more efficient way. [...]
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Gustavo Garzon, agronomist of Agro2, visited the provence Chiriqui to analyze the cassava market and to meet cassava growers. Agro2 is looking to buy cassava of max 10 months old, suitable for peeled and waxed cassava. Some conclusions of this trip we would like to share with you: The strong rains in rain season has [...]
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At Agro2, cassava, or yuca, is our business. As such, we’d like to clear the record about a very ubiquitous misconception about the manihot esculenta plant that we’ve seen all over the internet: yuca is not yucca. Yuca is actually a genus in the agave family and covers a whole range of plants that cannot be baked into pie, pone or any other delicious treats. Once and for all, let’s examine the difference between these two equally lovely, but entirely different plants.
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We are pleased to welcome Gustavo Garzón Mosquera to the Agro2 team! Gustavo joins Agro2 as our new cassava specialist and agronomist. He has worked as an agricultural developer and prime material purchaser, as well as a manager of small farmers in choosing cassava varieties, planting, application of inputs and harvesting. Gustavo is Colombian and [...]
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Potatoes, like the other crops we’ve discussed, are starchy. They contain chlorogenic acid, carotenoids and phytochemcias, as well as vitamin C, potassium, B6, thiamin, riboflavin, folate, niacin, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and zin. The potato also contains solanine, a poison that is also found in henbane, tobacco, eggplan and tomato. While this poison is toxic, it is rarely ingested to the extent to cause any symptoms in humans, except in cases of potato famines (when people have no other food than potatoes).
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Like cassava, camote is an extremely biodiverse, and actually has more than 1,000 different species. However of these, only the I. batatas is noteworthy, as the others are highly poisonous. The camote is softer than a potato, sweet and orange in color. This color is indicative of high beta carotene content, but the camote is also rich in vitamin C and vitamin B6.
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