GUIDE FOR BEGINNERS AND NOT SO BEGINNERS

At LABIN we give you the best advice, and we take care of our customers with a personalized attention, to make your crop multiply its production.

Spain is the world’s leading producer and exporter of carob, with an annual harvest of around 60,000-80,000 tons, and a regular cultivation area of about 45,000 hectares.

The crop is widespread in several Communities, such as Valencia (44 %), the Balearic Islands (28 %), Catalonia (22 %), Andalusia (4 %) and Murcia (3 %). The carob tree, specifically in the Levantine zone and the Balearic Islands, is characterized by traditional, aged, rainfed plantations, with low densities (about 50 trees/ha), which results in obtaining low yields, alternating and of variable commercial quality.

However, in recent years, new plantations are being established, mainly in the pre-coastal areas of Catalonia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, with little or no incidence of frost, densities between 100-150 trees/ha and in some of them good yields are obtained, with low costs, by mechanizing harvesting.

At LABIN we help you to keep your crops vigorous during all phenological stages.

Our secret?
We have a wide variety of fertilizers of different kinds, where we will help you to develop the best nutritional fertilizer plan tailored to each of your crops.

First and foremost, it is advisable to know the nutritional situation at the beginning of cultivation, with a soil analysis. If the trees are to be productive, they must be treated differently from conventional crops.

For this purpose, we have different phases:

PHASE 1: BOTTOM FERTILIZER
With LABINOR P-25 and LABINOR K-30, we will provide the soil with one of the best organic matter on the market to enrich it.

PHASE 2: NUTRITIONAL MAINTENANCE
LABIFOL NITROPLUS, LABIFOL SUPERAMINO, LABIFOL MOVICAL and LABISINERGIC, with these fertilizers we will help increase production and thus obtain more and better quality carobs on our farm.

PHASE 3: POST HARVEST TREATMENT
To recover the nutrients that we have provided in the different phases, we will provide LABICUAJE, LABIN K+ and LABICUPER to nourish the tree, thus ensuring that next year it will continue with high yields.

By following these cycles, we will obtain and increase the yields of our crop.

Fact of interest:
Also, even if you are not from Spain, but you are interested in this crop, do not hesitate to contact us because there are also carob plantations in Argentina, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Bolivia among others… What do you think? Curious, isn’t it?

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For more information contact us at our customer service number: 938 03 19 66 or send us an email to: comercial@labin.net

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