“…In Colombia, it is cultivated mainly on the north coast of the country by small and medium producers, which benefit from their adaptation to the rainfall deficit and the incorporation of atmospheric nitrogen into the soil (Abaidoo et al, 2017), the latter decreases the need for very expensive inorganic fertilizers. This production system has grown from 14,361 ha in 2007 to 17,199 ha in 2020 (Agronet, 2022), due to the release of new varieties with prostrate habit and greater yield potential, but with the difficulty of manual harvesting, which represents 44% of production costs (Martínez-Reina et al, 2022), and the additional challenge of finding labour for such work. Likewise, these prostrate cultivars are affected by the microclimate, since the pods, when they come into contact with the soil, deteriorate, thereby affecting grain yield.…”