Demasa Sustainable Management

Though growing a luxury food item as a mono-crop is not a very sustainable endeavor, Demasa’s sustainability program seemed to be quite extensive. They have worked through the experimental period, during which they had to use trial and error methods to find out which techniques work best. Now they have an efficient system for collected micro-organisms from the surrounding area (without over exploiting them) and cultivating them in tanks, for use in place of the agro chemicals they had used previously to grow the Palmito trees.
The process of cultivating micro-organisms gets more efficient each time they do it, which is a very strong sustainable management aspect. They are able to make more fertilizer with less organic matter each time, allowing them to extract less organic matter from the surrounding area. Using these fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers is more economically and environmentally sustainable.
One area of sustainable management that could be improved upon is that the fertilizer they are adding to the soil does not help to make the soil self-sustainable. Since the soil had basically been killed by the chemicals they used previously, they could be working on a technology that would rejuvenate the soil and bring it back to life so that it would not be necessary to re-apply the fertilizer constantly.