COLATINCO, The Company

The coconut is recognized the world over as one of the most valuable crops due to the plant's full use and the great demand for coconut products, for this reason COLATINCO produces in the State of Yucatan, Mexico, Coconut Certified Genetic Material of the excellent variety Malayan Jamaican Dwarf.

This coconut variety has the highest degree of resistance to the Coconut Lethal Yellowing disease (+98% * Romney-87), the terrible ailment that threatens to destroy coconut palms in tropical America. Apart from this quality, and as it can be observed in our Mother Plantation located at the Hacienda Oxtapacab, the Malayan Jamaican Dwarf has a very fast development and produces high yields. These characteristics coupled with its ability to adapt to poor and rocky soils when irrigated and fertilized make it an extremely valuable plant.

The qualities mentioned above have generated great interest among agricultural producers of this region, of other States of Mexico, as well as of several Central American and Caribbean countries.

COLATINCO mass produces this Genetic Material, using the most suitable agricultural production methods, in great measure generated by the company, and that have been recognized by institutions and researchers of renowned national and international standing.

Oxtapacab was a Sisal producing hacienda during the past century. It is located 45 minutes by highway from Merida, capital of the State of Yucatan, Mexico. It hosts COLATINCO's Malayan Jamaican Dwarf coconut Mother Plantation and its nursery.

COLATINCO's Malayan Jamaican Dwarf coconut Mother Plantation and nursery receives visitors from all over the world throughout the year. Use this website's contact form to send us your visit request and we will be glad to respond.