Yuri Barros

I think that one have to separete things........

Mats from extract pups............from the mats in production.........

Mats in production have distinct management.............the pups are choped at surface level.............

In the past they used a tool called "lurdinha".........to dig the apical gem..........but now they chop the exceeding pups with a machete...........at soil surface level............

Every time they chop...........the apical gem grows near the surface...........until they cut it.......

You don´t touch the main corm in this operation.............

But if you want some pups to spread the plantation............I think that you have to choose few mats to do it...............

In this case a digging bar could help...........

But in Mats in production...........the use of digging bar ......or the "lurdinha"..........may be harmful.........and the wound maybe attract weevils..........Cosmopolites sordidus........