Three entries · written from the field
Three entries, no editorial-calendar filler.
Harvest, sustainability and the plant health challenge that defines Colombian avocado. If you need something that is not here, write to us and we will put it in writing before we publish it.
01 — Entries
They lie flat on the table, like in the farm office. Hover any of them to straighten it up and read it head-on.
01
Harvest
The harvest season between May and August is one of the most important moments of the year. It is when the field sets the pace: the fruit dictates the rhythm and the whole operation —186 people on direct payroll and 9 apprentices— organises itself around the picking.
From the Avoterra blog
02
Sustainability
Growing and exporting avocados must not work against caring for the land. In Urrao that translates into concrete, auditable things: not abstracting water from the catchment, localised drip irrigation and the SPRING add-on within the scope of the GGN.
From the Avoterra blog
03
Agricultural innovation
Colombia faces the challenge of the Phytophthora fungus and is betting on clonal avocados: more resistant, more uniform and better adapted to the terrain. It is the same reason rootstocks here are selected for their resistance to Phytophthora cinnamomi.
From the Avoterra blog
Planting material
Rootstocks are selected for their resistance to Phytophthora cinnamomi, the fungus that most conditions avocado growing in a wet zone. It is the same field decision behind Colombia's bet on clonal avocados.
Main harvest from week 40 to week 08 (October–February) and mid-season from 14 to 22 (April–August). From week 22 onwards we still have fruit, but there we compete on price and we would rather say so.
02 — What lies behind
4 kg box and sizes 12 to 30, with the lot number printed on it. With that number you can work back to the row.
The GLOBALG.A.P. SPRING add-on audits responsible water use, and the GGN is public.
Selected rootstocks, IPM, drainage and pruning: the field response to Phytophthora in a 7,500+ mm zone.
Come to Urrao and we will show you the lot your last container came from. Or get this week's offer, every Monday, with no automated sequence behind it.
