It’s a vanilla planifolia tech plantation in partnership with 43 ​​families of ejidatarios in the buffer zone of the Lacandon Jungle. The project involves the reforestation of pastures with tutors and intensive cultivation of vanilla, combined with mesh-shade houses for the production of seedlings and pods in controlled systems. Additionally traditionally benefits the product for sale in pods or extracts. This is a project type Grass Roots Business Initiative for its environmental impact, social participation and administrative support technology and strategic partners.

Chiapas Fund holds a 45% of the project since 2005.

The objective of this project was to avoid predation of the forest, through a high-value crop and labor intensive control, full vanilla characteristics. Consider from the beginning the partnership with small producers and the use of technology.

Vanilla from the Lacandon generates more than 120 annual wages per hectare, regardless of wages in the pollination stage. The original project area was 43 hectares and has been consolidating in 13 hectares with irrigation technology, more than 5,000 m2 of house-shadow, and modules are being expanded to house 500 m2 shade in each plot. It has excellent quality plant material, as a technology partner to Agromod Group.

The company is restructuring its processes to the most advanced technology that is protected agriculture, and is moving this technology to each plot, and the equipment and the required investments are complemented by institutional programs of state government, federal and European Union.