La Frutabomba is the name of the farm where Javier Espinosa Escobar dedicates himself to the cultivation of fruit trees, diversifying them with various crops. It’s just over five hectares is a sanctuary in which this educated agroecological man finds peace every day, despite the mosquitoes, the scorching sun and the hard work of the gully.
It is an area that encourages you to explore and enjoy the crops and coconut trees that seem to greet the visitor and provide its fresh water rich in minerals and pleasant to the palate; To take a large and green Persian lemon, guava, cherry. Further, a little further away, corn, donkey bananas, sweet potatoes.
“We take advantage of intercropping and intercropping to get higher yields in small areas, while harvesting a variety of produce.”
Faced with drought, pests and lack of fertilizer, Javier, as an agroecologist from the National Association of Small Farmers delegation in Manatee, studies the soil, which he already knows by heart.
“Each producer must know his land, its physical and chemical characteristics, and on this basis he always works with agroecology, which is essential because it provides farmers with alternatives such as the use of animal draft, organic fertilizers, and bio-supported products that can control pests and diseases.”
This is a family farm, and it has its merits, because “between my brothers and nephews there were no problems of any kind. We are bound by agreement to deliver products to the state, to the small yard and points of sale of the co-op, small industries, and social consumption of the municipality of Manatee, and this satisfies us.”
In addition to taking care of his farm, which belongs to the Gonzalo Falcón Service and Credit Cooperative, Javier works intensively as an agroecologist, forming a group of facilitators in other productive forms of the municipality, and through them they develop the exchange of experience with producers, getting to know the most exclusive farms in activity.
For all these reasons, Javier is happy in La frutabomba, that farm that gives and takes away from him sleep, where he feels full despite the hard work in the fields, the mosquito epidemic and the sun that burns every day. a work day.
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