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Atapri-Biodiversity and CO2 emissions responsible for

In keeping with his motto "protect biodiversity, the source of life", the association of small producers ATAPRI always directed their efforts to reforestation of the region in the province of El Oro in southern Ecuador, which grow Musa sapientum native to the Philippines.

Normally banana plantations rely 1500-1700 plants per hectare and genetic material from new varieties obtained by meristems reinforced, cloned and resistance to certain diseases, drought and stagnation.

ATAPRI, instead, as a rule the use of up to 1000 plants per hectare, the use of only genetic material from indigenous plants that self-propagate naturally and are considered more resistant phenotype and a growing following the principles of conduct organic farming. This philosophy of production allows producers to owners of the plantations ATAPRI to overhaul every 20 or 30 years instead of every 7 years as the most productive plantations generated by meristems, but the biological management together with the autochthonous characteristics necessarily reduce the yield to about 10-15 cartons per week per hectare (in the conventional with the use fertilizers and synthetic pesticides can be reached peaks of 55-60 cases / week per hectare).

The low density of bananas per hectare allows the cultivation of cocoa bushes of the variety "criolla" and other important species of native plants that since the last census, effettutato among all members in November 2008, are as follows :
- 450,000 banana plants (none of which comes from meristems) - 350,000 shrubs cocoa - 1,500 hectares of virgin tropical forest indigenous - 800 hectares of native species replanted according to the plan of reforestation (20,000 cedar trees, tropical 10,000 of figueroa, 5,000 guachapeli, Samon and 10,000 shrubs, 10,000 of fruit such as tropical mango, papaya, mini-banana "Orito, etc...) For the year 2009 is already scheduled the planting of 20,000 new trees and 5,000 plants pachacos bamboo 'fistula'.
The clear "waiver" intensive agriculture leads members to benefit from a favorable and unique ecosystem whose harmony is reflected in a product more healthy and less vulnerable to attacks of pathogens of banana (mainly black Sigatoka).

The abundance of foliage at different heights (ie, cocoa bushes in the shelter of banana leaves and much higher than wood species and large fruit trees including mango and papaya), also allows save and capture 0.95 g of CO2 equivalent per banana produced by members ATAPRI. According to a calculation program and study on CO2 began in October 2008 to evaluate emission and capture of CO2 from agricultural production of bananas of the members of the association, and the CO2 emissions from shipping and land dall'imbalaggio from maturation and other operations necessary to bring the banana to the final consumer is equal to 0.7 g per banana. Therefore the balance between CO2 emitted CO2 captured and calculated for banana is a positive for the production of bananas association ATAPRI!
We are proud to support this project which seem to Fair Trade organic bananas and contribute to the association ATAPRI fight against the greenhouse effect responsible for climate change by reducing CO2 emissions and global warming!