The low percentage of growers who allocate resources to maintaining and regulating shade within their cacao plantations is explained by the fact that most of them believe that shading is of little benefit to the crop, which generates production costs and is not profitable.
El bajo porcentaje de productores que destinan recursos a mantener y regular sombra dentro del cacaotal se explica al considerar que la mayor parte de ellos considera que es una actividad que aporta pocos beneficios al cacao, implica un costo de producción y no resulta redituable.