Better cacao crops with Haifa’s Poly-Cacao™ foliar fertilizer

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Haifa, a world leader in specialty plant nutrition, offers an innovative solution for fertilization of cacao, based on Poly-Cacao™ highly-efficient foliar fertilizers, carefully designed to meet the crop’s growth needs. Haifa’s fertilizers improve plant nutrition, enhance application efficiency and boost grower’s profits, while minimizing harmful environmental impacts.

Haifa, a world leader in specialty plant nutrition, offers an innovative solution for fertilization of cacao, based on Poly-Cacao™ highly-efficient foliar fertilizers, carefully designed to meet the crop’s growth needs. Haifa’s fertilizers improve plant nutrition, enhance application efficiency and boost grower’s profits, while minimizing harmful environmental impacts.

Customized nutritional solution for cacao

CocoaHaifa’s Poly-Cacao™ foliar formulae have been specially designed to meet the nutritional requirements of cacao. Poly-Cacao™ nutritional program provides balanced composition of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, and enriched with micro-nutrients. To enhance efficiency, Poly-Cacao™ products contain special adjuvants for better adhesion to the leaf surface, improved absorption and prolonged action. The efficiency of Poly-Cacao™ has been proved by field trials.

Poly-Cacao™ nutritional program considers the specific needs of the cacao

Time of application: “Young fruits grow slowly during first 40 days after pollination and are prone to wilting (average loss about 50 %); subsequent growth is more rapid up to 75 days; full maturity is reached in 150-180 days depending on climate”. (source: IFA)”.


Micro-nutrients: Boron and zinc deficiencies are common in cacao. To ensure adequate, healthy growth, Poly-Cacao™ formulae are enriched with high concentrations of boron and zinc.

 

Poly-Cacao™ nutritional program

  • Increases cacao yields

  • Enhance quality

  • Helps grower to get higher returns

Poly-Cacao™ formulae

  • 22-16-18+micro-nutrients supports establishment and vegetative growth of cacao trees

  • 15-8-33+micro-nutrients is recommended for fruits development of cacao trees

 

Products analysis

 
22-16-18+micro-nutrients
15-8-33+micro-nutrients
Total nitrogen (N)
22%
15%
N-NO3
5.1%
9%
N-NH4
3.1%
1.6%
N-NH2
13.8%
4.4%
Phosphorus (P2O5)
16%
8%
Potassium (K2O)
18%
33%
Micro-nutrients included: 1000 ppm iron (Fe)*, 500 ppm manganese (Mn)*, 1000 ppm boron (B), 2000 ppm zinc (Zn)*, 110 ppm, copper (Cu)*, 70 ppm molybdenum (Mo).
* EDTA-chelates

 

Application recommendations

Poly-Cacao™ foliar program provides the optimal nutritional composition for cacao, at the time when it is most efficient, and at the exact amount required by the crop.

Days from flowering
Product
Number of spray applications
Kg/Ha/spray
Spray volume*
Time interval between applications
1-40
Poly-Cacao™ 22-16-18+ME
3-4
1.65
150 l/ha
14 days
41-75
Poly-Cacao™ 15-8-33+ME
2-3
1.65
150 l/ha
14 days
76-150
Poly-Cacao™ 15-8-33+ME
4-5
1.65
150 l/ha
21 days 
Total
 
10-12
17-20 Kg / Ha
 
 
* 165 gr/ 15 Litter sprayer

General instructions:

  • Spray during the cooler and more humid parts of the day.

  • Never spray plants under stress.

  • When blending Poly-Cacao™ with Pesticide a jar test should be made for defining any incompatibility problems.

  • Phytotoxicity test should be made by spraying the mixture solution on one tree one week prior to intended commercial application.