JUACO. SiembraViva

Prepared for Philip Morris International · Global Agronomy

Broader Reach. Timelier Decisions. Healthier Soils.
Triple the farms each field technician can reach — and act in time to protect yield and build soil health.

SiembraViva · JUACO — Regenerative intelligence for leaf buyers and aggregators

You have seen similar proposals · here is the difference

Know in time — at scale.

Some extend your field team’s reachbut they record what has already happened.

A few look inside the plant and the soilbut one farm at a time.

JUACO does bothThree times the reach for your agronomists, with the depth to catch problems early.

Scores 0–10: SiembraViva’s assessment of what each company publishes (September 2026).

Why it matters

You can’t measure the future. JUACO shows what drives what — and why.

All data looks backward. JUACO shows what a decision is likely to produce before you have to live with it.

Anticipates

It shows the trend mid-season, while there is still time to act.

Experience, without the cost

The experience you can’t afford to buy — the kind you only get by losing a crop.

Context, not recipes

It doesn’t say “do X.” It says “under these conditions, X leads to Y.” That is why it avoids blanket recipes.

Outliers make it sharper

When a result doesn’t fit, it isn’t thrown out — it refines the model.

The role of your agronomy team

Your agronomist makes the call. JUACO doesn’t replace them — it triples their reach.

The judgment is there; the view between visits isn’t.

Three times the farms

Sees every farm in the area weekly, and visits where it counts.

More depth

Sap and soil biology show what a field visit can’t.

From firefighting to prevention

Between visits, someone is still watching the farm.

Know-how that stays

Every decision and its outcome is recorded, so it doesn’t walk out the door with people.

How it works · the way a good doctor works

From “not sure” to “here’s what to do.”

1

Spot it

The symptom

Monitoring + Field records

2

Understand why

The blood test and the scan

Sap + Soil biology

3

Decide what to do

The specialist

Cognitive engine

4

Rebuild the soil

The treatment

Bio-inputs + Lab

Step 1 · The symptom

How is the crop doing this week?

A photoVigor, growth stage, plant health and soil.

A voice noteEverything done on the farm, on record.

Every week, no travel neededThe grower sends it on WhatsApp.

Monitoring

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Field records

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Step 2 · The blood test and the scan

What’s really going on?

SapThe blood test: what the plant is taking up right now.

Soil biologyThe scan: the life in the soil.

The cause, before it showsNot once the damage is on the leaf.

Soil fungiµg per gram · Coffee, Nicaragua

Program field versus its control. Fungi rose from 3 to 153 under the program; the control stayed at 6.

Calcium in sapppm, new leaf · Vegetables, Colombia

Five readings, one trend: calcium is falling — visible in the sap before it shows on the leaf.

Actual lab data, as shown in each farm’s audit view. Each point is one sample.

Step 3 · The specialist

What should we do in this field?

Three schools of thought, one decisionSap nutrition (Kempf), the soil food web (Ingham) and compost biology (Johnson). The engine decides which one should lead in that field.

No recipes, no guessworkIt works only from vetted agronomic criteria and the farm’s own data — it doesn’t improvise. Your agronomist has the final say.

Learns from every new data pointIt checks each recommendation against what actually happened.

The cognitive engine brings together

The farm’s monitoring and field records

Its sap and soil-biology results

13 years of curated regenerative know-how

Results from working farms across Latin America

🔍 See a real engine report (Spanish)

Step 4 · The treatment

More than an app. We set up the lab and the bio-input plant.

A lab in the growing areaSap and soil-biology testing close to the farms, not in a city lab. SiembraViva installs it and trains the local operator.

Community bio-input plantCompost and vermicompost made from local crop residues and inoculated with soil biology native to the area.

Capability that stays localTrained rural young people running the microscope and the bio-input plant in their own community.

What you get · a dashboard for every farm

Three indices. Three questions.

Progress index — **Progress** Is the crop on pace?From the weekly photo

Conversion index — **Conversion** Is it on track for harvest?From sap analysis

Resilience index — **Resilience** How input-dependent and weather-proof is it?From soil biology

Swipe to see all three →

Plantain · Urabá. One farm, live (Oct 13, 2026). Mid-season indicators, not a yield forecast.

What you get · full field records for every farm

What’s on the farm, what’s been done — and what’s coming.

Vegetables · Antioquia, Colombia. Live dashboard, October 13, 2026. The forecast is built from recorded plantings and harvests, so it needs some farm history.

What you get · an audit view for every farm

The full history, with the trend.

Sap, date by dateNew leaf versus mature leaf, by field.

Soil and soil biologyFungi, bacteria, protozoa and nematodes.

Inputs and field workEvery task, with its evidence photo.

From the index to the dataThe data behind every number, one tap away.

Audit view: sap trends — Sap · 8 dates in the program field

Audit view: soil-biology trends — Soil biology · 5 dates in the same field

Coffee · Nicaragua. Live audit view, October 13, 2026: 67 lab samples and 2,413 recorded tasks since March 2024.

For your agronomist · the multiplier

The network view shows them whom to call.

All their farmsEach with its three indices and the date of the data.

A farm with no score shows what still needs measuringThat’s this week’s call list.

One tap on any farmFrom the network view to the task, and from the task to its photo.

Plantain · Urabá, Colombia. 121 farms, live network view, October 13, 2026; names blurred. Tasks and photo are from one of these farms.

The farm’s tasks — The farm · its tasks, with photos

Evidence photo: soil cover in a plantain field — The photo · task: “Cover the soil”

Measured cases · four crops, three countries

What we found once we measured inside the plant.

Coffee · Nicaragua

−84%

calcium over 18 months as potassium crowded it out. The plants looked fine; 52 of 60 fields were below the minimum.

See the case (Spanish) →

Banana · Ecuador

3 · 3

fields, same symptoms, three different causes. The issue was excess unconverted nitrogen, not a shortage — more fertilizer would have made it worse.

See the case (Spanish) →

Vegetables · Colombia

0

calendar-based sprays. Every application is triggered by growth, sap and soil signals.

See the case (Spanish) →

Lime · Mexico

6 → 10

sap Brix with no extra nitrogen. The problem wasn’t the rate — it was conversion.

See the case (Spanish) →

In all four, the standing practice was the opposite of what the data showed.

Measured result · JUACO + bio-inputs · lime, Mexico

Same farm, same season. The pilot zone cost less and yielded more.

3.7×

higher cost for the synthetic program: COP 2,972 versus COP 800 per tree per year

−78%

lower fertilizer cost per kilo of fruit

+24%

more fruit: 1,184 boxes versus an average of 952 in the synthetic-program zones

Persian lime · Sierra Puebla–Veracruz, Mexico. Pilot zone on vermicompost from the bio-input plant versus two adjacent zones on a synthetic program (urea and others), January–August 2026; the grower reports the same tree count in each. The harvest reflects a single application. Costs at Colombian list prices, in Colombian pesos (August 2026).

What to expect, and when

Costs come down first. Yield follows.

Short term · first cycleStop applying what the plant isn’t using.

Less synthetic fertilizerSap shows what’s in excess before the next application.

Inputs made on siteThe bio-input plant replaces part of what is bought today.

This is what the trial measures

Medium term · years 2–3Once soil biology is established.

Higher yieldA biologically active soil supplies nutrients on its own.

More resilienceTo drought, heavy rain and input-price spikes.

Not promised in the first cycle

Environmental impact · soil regeneration

Impact you can verify — measured farm by farm.

Less synthetic fertilizer

Making and applying nitrogen is one of the largest emission sources in a crop.

Metric: kg of nitrogen per hectare

Living soil

Fungi, bacteria, protozoa and nematodes, counted under the microscope.

Metric: resilience index

Residues back to the soil

The bio-input plant turns farm and kitchen waste into inputs.

Metric: tonnes processed

Structure and oxygen

Compacted, oxygen-starved soil releases nitrous oxide, a gas about 300 times more potent than CO₂. Relieving compaction prevents it and lets soil biology thrive.

Metric: soil structure test in monitoring

No salinization

The usual concern with compost. After two years of heavy use, conductivity went down.

Metric: electrical conductivity

Soil carbon

Johnson (2015, preprint) reports about 10 t/ha per year once fungi and bacteria reach 1:1. We use 7 as a conservative reference.

Metric: baseline and endline, same point and method

Measured regeneration · vegetables, Antioquia, Colombia

A former pasture. Two years on, a different soil.

2×

organic matter: from 7.6% to 15.5%

1.9 → 15

cation exchange capacity: the soil now holds far more nutrients

6.6

pH, down from 7.8 — now in the ideal range for the crop

−93%

lower electrical conductivity: no salinization despite the compost

Compost and vermicompost from the bio-input plant, living cover and short-cycle crops. External lab analysis, July 2023 and July 2025, one sample per date. The compost rate on this plot was far higher than what is proposed for tobacco.

The question we always get

Will growers actually use it? Yes — one step at a time.

1Registers the crop→ 2Monitoring and harvest→ 3Opens the dashboard→ 4Diagnosis: sap and soil→ 5Recommendations and tasks

Value first, then the next askEach step unlocks once the previous one has paid off for the grower. On WhatsApp, with nothing new to install.

135

active farms in 4 countries

1,108

field checks, on 87 farms

68%

still active after 3 months

JUACO data from June 29 to September 29, 2026. Excluding demo farms and SiembraViva internal users.

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Step · diagnosis

We noticed that after the nitrogen application the stem grew faster and the leaves turned greener 🌱

But two weeks later growth dropped below where it was, and pest signs are showing.

Want to know what’s going on? Send us a sap and soil sample 🔬7:42 a.m.

Tell me what’s going on

See my dashboard

The effort it takes

Who does what — and how long it takes.

The grower

A photo and a voice note on WhatsApp each week.
Takes sap and soil samples when asked.
Static composting: built in layers, no manual turning.

A few minutes a week

Your agronomy team

Sets the tobacco reference ranges with us.
Reviews the weekly summary for their area.
Approves or adjusts each recommendation.

They decide; no data entry

SiembraViva

Installs the lab and the community bio-input plants.
Trains local operators.
Runs the engine, the lab work and grower support on WhatsApp.

Setup and operations

For small family farms, the bio-input plant is shared: several families run one together and split the work.

What about tobacco?

No tobacco case yet. This would be the first.

The method is crop-agnosticIt reads plant metabolism at each growth stage. It already runs in coffee, banana, plantain, citrus, avocado and vegetables.

Reference ranges set by your teamSap ranges and leaf-quality targets for tobacco are calibrated with your agronomists before we start.

Side by side with your agronomistThey know the crop. We bring the instruments and the method.

Proof of value · 120 growers in one area of your network

One tobacco cycle, plus the lead time to get the soil ready.

3 to 4 months · before transplanting

Preparation

Lab in place. Community bio-input plants producing. Baseline for soil, soil biology and carbon. Inoculation with local soil biology.

One cycle · about 6 months

The crop

Weekly monitoring, regular sap and soil-biology tests, in-season adjustments. JUACO fields versus control fields, with your agronomist.

At the end

Readout

Results against the control and the decision rule agreed up front.

The lead time isn’t idle: from month one you see the baseline of your own farms.

So the trial settles it

What we measure. What we need from you.

What we measure, with and without JUACO

Synthetic fertilizer applied per hectare.
The three indices, from baseline to endline.
Leaf quality, against your team’s criteria.
Soil: microbiology, structure, salinity and carbon.
Actual use: how many growers report each week.

Decision rule agreed before we start

What we need

One area and 120 growers, with control fields.
One agronomist from your team as our counterpart.
Your current fertilizer program and harvest history.
Tobacco reference ranges and quality targets.
Organic residues available locally for the bio-input plants.

Country and timing: to be agreed with you

JUACO. SiembraViva

Profitable. Scalable. And leaving the soil better for the next generation.

Let’s start with one area, alongside your agronomist, and let your own farms’ data decide.

Let’s talk Diego Benítez diego@quierosiembraviva.com +57 310 442 9598 siembraviva.com

SiembraViva · JUACO — The nervous system of your grower network

Broader Reach. Timelier Decisions. Healthier Soils.Triple the farms each field technician can reach — and act in time to protect yield and build soil health.

Know in time — at scale.

You can’t measure the future. JUACO shows what drives what — and why.

Your agronomist makes the call. JUACO doesn’t replace them — it triples their reach.

From “not sure” to “here’s what to do.”

How is the crop doing this week?

What’s really going on?

What should we do in this field?

More than an app. We set up the lab and the bio-input plant.

Three indices. Three questions.

What’s on the farm, what’s been done — and what’s coming.

The full history, with the trend.

The network view shows them whom to call.

What we found once we measured inside the plant.

Same farm, same season. The pilot zone cost less and yielded more.

Costs come down first. Yield follows.

Impact you can verify — measured farm by farm.

A former pasture. Two years on, a different soil.

Will growers actually use it? Yes — one step at a time.

Who does what — and how long it takes.

The grower

Your agronomy team

SiembraViva

No tobacco case yet. This would be the first.

One tobacco cycle, plus the lead time to get the soil ready.

What we measure. What we need from you.

What we measure, with and without JUACO

What we need

Profitable. Scalable. And leaving the soil better for the next generation.

Broader Reach. Timelier Decisions. Healthier Soils.
Triple the farms each field technician can reach — and act in time to protect yield and build soil health.