“CAPTURE THE BEETLE SO
THAT IT’S NOT ATTACKED BY THE MOJOJOY”

1. GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Educational Campaign for the preventive cultural control of the adult of the chiza or mojojoy called “Cucarrón Marseño”

2. ESPECIFIC OBJECTIVES

• a. To capacitate the whole educational nucleus both urban and rural (teachers and kids)
• b. To lessen the economical damage that the beadle produces in its larva stage.
• c. To develop a campaign during the moths of February-March-April-Mayo.
• d. To measure the impact of the cultural control over the plantation.
• e. To encourage girls and boys to participate in the agronomic activities of coffee farms: promoting the generational relay.
• f. To make the group and family work in controlling the plague.
• g. To decrease the use of chemicals to contribute to the quality of the environment.

3. ANTECEDENTS AND JUSTIFICATION
The chiza or mojojoy, is the larva of the beadle, which deposits its eggs on the ground, especially on those rich in organic matter. The larva are found in the ground between 5 and 20 cm deep, the are curve shaped, have the shape of a “C”, and their body color is dirty white. The attack causes the plantations less than one year old, a yellowish color and fallen leaves, and when ripped out it roots have been consumed by the larvae. Due to the economic loses, deteriorating of growing coffee and uprising, in the years 2004 and 2005 in the area of Concordia, we see the necessity to return to the cultural preventive practices that permit the decreasing the severe economic impact cause by the plague, practices such as the use of coverings, meaning the crops are always covered, so that the populations stay in equilibrium, not using fruit pulp as bait in the crops or the use of luminous traps at the moment in which the seeds are planted, among other. The excessive application of chemical substance during this period produced a deterioration of the grounds, diminishing the production, damages in the health of the applicants, increasing the costs of the production of the coffee.

4. ACTIONS TO BE DEVELOPED

• a. Realization of meetings in 38 rural schools, 3 urban and an urban High School, in the awareness of the plague and its cultural control.
• b. Spread of the project’s information through the use of oral media, written media and visual media, of the damages produced by the plague and the ways it can be controlled.
• c. Invitation to participate of other groups and organizations such as coffee cultivators, UMATA, Municipal Administration, and any other group that wants to participate to incentive the participants within the campaign.

5. PARTICIPATING INSTITUTIONS

• a. Municipal Committee of Coffee farmers of Concordia.
• b. Municipal Administration and UMATA.
• c. Educational Rural and Urban Nucleus.
• d. Vegetable Sanity section, Committee of Coffee of Antioquia.
• e. La Concordia Associative group.
• f. Cooperative of coffee planters of Salgar “COOCAFISA”
• g. And the most important you.

6. Execution Time. The campaign looks to give an incentive for those kids and institutions, that the largest number of “cucarrones maseños” captured during the campaign, in the months of February, march, April and May, season in which historically, the plague presents it self with more incidence.

7. Conclusions.

• • Decreasing the damage to the crops caused by the larva.
• • Use rational amounts of chemicals in controlling of the plagues and sicknesses.
• • Adoption in part of the kids and adults in culturally controlling the plague.
• • Organizational work in checks of quality of life of the Concordian agricultures.