PRODUCTION SYSTEM

Production takes place in a Jiffy pellet pot. This product is made from moss, which gives nutrients to the plant, is completely organic (biodegradable), and a 6-week production cycle is obtained.

The pellet pot provides a series of benefits to the plants, as opposed to stakes or planting in plastic bags. These benefits are as follows:

1. Greater radical development, provoked by auto pruning, since this promotes a greater secondary root development (up to 300% greater).
2. Greater initial growth at plantation time.
3. Lesser field mortality, since no transplant is made (the whole pellet pot is sown).
4. When sown, the plant is 8-10 centimeters high, which guarantees a lesser stress rate.
5. Lesser moving when taking the material to the field than regarding the plastic bag.
6. Smaller surface (infrastructure) needed to realize the production.
7. Maintenance labors (weed removal, fertilizing, and hilling) and production cycle are reduced.

INSTALLATIONS

The plant nursery has two types of settlements:

1. Closed greenhouse: used in the quality improvement projects of the planting material.
   It’s a 1000 square meters installation with a metallic structure and isolating material that allows the control of environmental conditions – temperature and relative humidity. This structure is used for the superior-quality material reproduction, which is then transferred to the open greenhouses.
2. Open greenhouse: used in the development of the planting material.
   Teak plants are produced in tunnel-shaped modules that are 5 meters wide and 50 meters long, with a maximum 36 000 plant capacity each. The greenhouse has 10 modules, which can be translated to a maximum production capacity of 60 000 plants per week or 240 000 plants per month. (216 hectares / month).