The Team

Tania Sugen

Assistant to the Farm Director

Tania Sugen is one of EcoPlanet Bamboo Central America’s youngest female workers. She joined EcoPlanet Bamboo CA at the age of 16 just after graduating from h...

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Silvio Calero

Construction manager

Born in Tipitapa in 1957, a town on the outskirts of Managua, Silvio was raised on his family’s small plantain farm.  His most memorable memories growing...

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Marrisa Tenorio

Field Supervisor

Born and raised in Muelle de los Bueyes, Nicaragua, Marrisa joined EcoPlanet Bamboo Central America in 2012. Marrisa graduated from high school and got a degree in ...

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Pedro Vargas

Tractor driver

Pedro was born in the municipality of Chontales, and grew up on his family’s farm. In his early twenties he left to Costa Rica where he worked on a banana pla...

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Idialda Diaz Gomez

Nursery worker

Idialda, 26, works in the EcoPlanet Bamboo nursery. She has been taught to tend to the seedlings, water, weed, apply necessary prescriptions and assist with the tra...

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Celso Fernandez Luna

Planting supervisor

At 37, Celso has lived his entire life on Rio Siquia Farm, having sold a small section of the land to EcoPlanet Bamboo.

Celso is one of the landowners wh...

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