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Key traits
Shade preference
High humidity needs
Sensitive to nutrient imbalance
How Nando helps
Enhances
Soil biodiversity and nutrient cycling in shaded, humid environments
Supports
Tree resilience against fungal disease pressure and periods of water stress
Reduces
Losses in pod development and bean quality under nutrient- or moisture-limited conditions

Cultivation
focus:
Maintaining appropriate shade and canopy structure; managing flowering and pod development (cherelle wilt), controlling major fungal diseases

Common
challenges:
Fungal diseases (Phytophthora spp., Witches' broom); nutrient depletion in established plantations; water stress impacting pod set and bean size

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