The incorporation of organic fertilizers is a necessary practice in the orchards during the fall, to improve soil fertility and recover the nutrients extracted during the production season.
In this way, the families that develop the activity produce organic compost from one season to the next, which must be incorporated before spring, in order to improve the structure, porosity and fertility of the soil.
This practice is carried out at different times of the year. For this reason, within the framework of the FONTAGRO project "Adaptation to climate change in family livestock farming", the Los Menucos Technical Office of the Jacobacci Extension Agency of INTA planned a joint workshop with Margot Miles, owner of the Dos Hornallas farm and demonstrator field of the project, together with the staff of the Llancay Ruca de Sierra Colorada senior citizens' home. Other neighbors of the locality participated, interested in acquiring knowledge about this methodology to improve vegetable production,
The aim of the workshop was to facilitate the incorporation of compost and reduce the time spent on this activity through the use of a motor cultivator.
These activities promote an adaptation to climate change, because they allow reusing organic waste to improve soil fertility and therefore the production of vegetable gardens.
