About Us
We are a competitive, socially and environmentally responsible company, in constant technological evolution and available to the entire community of the agricultural sector. We are located in the municipality of Tenjo, just 35 minutes from the city of Bogotá, capital of Colombia, and our goal is the production and commercialization of all products and sub-products that are generated with the management and use of the Californian red worm.
Our experience in the agricultural sector allows us to provide training, advice, consulting and technical assistance for the assembly, production and marketing of the products derived from vermiculture.
Mission
Lombricultura de Tenjo is a company dedicated to the production and commercialization of products derived from the vermicompost that applies the technology for the sake of productivity to meet the needs of organic products in the agricultural sector at local, departmental and national level; It is also an entity committed to the integral and sustainable development of the Colombian agricultural sector.
Vision
Lombricultura de Tenjo is a company consolidated in the agricultural sector at national and international level that applies innovation and technological development policies based on social and environmental responsibility, to boost the production and marketing of organic fertilizers and sub-products with broad participation in the agricultural market, being an active part of rural Colombian development.
Principles and values
Lombricultura de Tenjo is characterized by generating a fair and conducive work environment to fully comply with the client’s own requirements. We identify the teamwork, responsibility, compliance and transparency in each work carried out by each member of the organization.
Experience
Vermicomposture was established on January 1, 2004 in the Chince village of the municipality of Tenjo; During the time since its establishment, it has developed activities that mitigate or alleviate the damage and environmental impact generated by solid waste in the environment, through the use of vermiculture and composting for the treatment of organic waste, considered as garbage , for recycling in the form of organic fertilizers or soil conditioners (granules and liquids) proteins and (breeding stock, bait for fishing and earthworm meal).
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Trained team
PUM Netherlands
Lombricultura de Tenjo has received international advice from PUM Netherlands, expert collaborators, an entity that helps small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and transmits technical, professional or general management capabilities.
Innovative Entrepreneurs
The National University, together with the Mayor’s Office of Bogotá and the network of innovative entrepreneurs, provided advice for 6 months, on the part of commercial and service improvement.
Clean production
Through the Regional Autonomous Corporation CAR and the Chamber of Commerce of Bogotá CCB and its subsidiary Corporación Ambiental Empresarial (CAEM), a diploma was held in strengthening local capacities in cleaner production and green markets.
Congresses
Lombricultura de Tenjo has been trained in 4 congresses of composting and vermiculture made in different cities of Colombia, which has allowed to increase technical knowledge in these areas.
The story of a company that was born in Tenjo
In 2004, Agronomist Norberto Díaz Mendoza faced a dilemma, because he did not know what to do with the excreta of the animals he raised in his Tenjo farm and decided to use them as the basis for the cultivation of red worms.
This was the beginning of the company Lombricultura de Tenjo, which at the end of the year exported to Spain 52 Tons of compounds derived from vermiculture and is preparing to meet new orders.
The experience that Díaz Mendoza achieved as a technician at ICA and Corpoica was essential to start the company, which currently sells about 20 tons of products per month, such as californian redworm breeding, solid fertilizer and liquid humus.
The SME sells its products in the savannah cundiboyacence and part of the eastern plains and prepares to expand towards the coast.