The beginning of Tagua’s trading.
fverac September 12th, 2007
The beginning of Tagua’s trading
Ecuador initiated the international commercialization of tagua around year 1865 with a first shipment to Germany, where the use of this product in the manufacture of buttons of high quality for clothes of high seam had been discovered.
In the next decades, something more about the application of tagua (exotic ivory, vegetable ivory) original of Ecuador was learned. In several industries, tagua was turned into buttons, trinkets, pins, toys, figures of miniature, cards of chess, fists of cane and many products of daily use.
TAGUA PRODUCTION
The plant grows in wild form, which means that the plantations were not programmed nor seeded. The plantations have extended in spontaneous form from the seeds that fall to the ground and are dampened in rains during winter.
The process of development of the plant lasts 15 years until obtaining its first fruits, when it begins to throw the cluster, whose main characteristics are their great size and that it is born from the armpits of the leaves. In addition, Tagua requires of certain amount of light, from its initial states to its maturity.