Tradition, technology and collective action

ASOGROCAIMA Projects

Initiatives rooted in Nocaima’s panela-making traditions and the organizational needs of rural communities.

Panela Plus and El Panelero bring together two areas of the association’s work: sugarcane processing and technology for rural management. Discover what each project does, how it supports our mission and where to learn more.

Sugarcane processing

Nocaima, Cundinamarca
Colombian origin

Panela Plus: tradition taking new forms

Panela Plus is an ASOGROCAIMA initiative from Nocaima, Cundinamarca. It connects the area’s panela-making traditions with new ways of processing and presenting panela, an unrefined cane sugar that is part of the region’s agricultural history.

ASOGROCAIMA makes the product using its knowledge of working with sugarcane. Its development reflects one of our areas of action: exploring processing alternatives that keep the product’s origins and its connection to organized farmers at the forefront.

Local identity

Panela and its origins in Nocaima are the starting point for this project and its relationship with the farming community.

Building collective capacity

Panela Plus is one of the association’s initiatives whose income helps sustain its nonprofit mission.

Visit the Panela Plus website

Visit the official website for detailed project information and contact channels.

Mountain landscape with sugarcane crops
It starts with sugarcaneSugarcane crops in a mountain landscape.
Front of the 30-gram Panela Plus Limón package
A new way to present panelaPanela Plus Limón packaging from the project’s visual identity.

Technology for rural communities

Panela farm management
Android application

El Panelero: information to organize your farm

El Panelero is an application developed by ASOGROCAIMA to organize work on panela-producing farms. It brings daily operating records together and allows owners, managers and workers to participate according to their roles and access permissions.

Work and teams

Organize workers, tasks and daily work records to keep track of farm activities.

Production and resources

Records of sugarcane processing, inventories and purchases to document production processes.

Accounts and traceability

Review sharecropping agreements, transactions, settlements and farm reports.

Intermittent connectivity

Store information locally and synchronize pending records when the connection returns, depending on device and session conditions.

This tool uses technology to meet a specific need in the sector: keeping organized information about work, resources and production. The official website explains how it works, its availability and its terms of use.

Explore the El Panelero app

Find information about the app and how to access it at elpanelero.com.

Inside El Panelero

Actual screenshots of the Android app, published on the official El Panelero website.

El Panelero operations hub with access to farm modules
Farm operationsAccess to tasks, daily work records, inventory and other modules.
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El Panelero sugarcane-processing module with records and history
Sugarcane processingPreparation, production records and history in one workflow.
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El Panelero synchronization screen showing record statuses
Work and synchronizationReview pending records and their status on the device.
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Projects with a collective purpose

How they support our mission

Income from Panela Plus and El Panelero helps sustain ASOGROCAIMA’s nonprofit mission. Both initiatives are connected to our work to strengthen farming families’ organizations, production, technology and social well-being in Nocaima and the Gualivá region.

The association’s work includes free training. To request information about our activities and receive our participation policies, email info@asogrocaima.com.

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