Avocado Quickscan Report

Download or read book Avocado Quickscan Report written by Matthijs Montsma and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A quick scan is carried out within the project, establishing a national quality standard for the Colombian Hass avocado sector executed within the programme Tropical and Exotic Fresh Fruit in Colombia of CBI. Agrosavia is a partner in the above mentioned project. The main objective of the quick scan was to find out critical points in export avocado supply chain and starting points for improvement. This report is describing the observations of the field trip to the main Colombian avocado production region, Antioquia. Avocado producers, a packing house and research facility were visited. In general the Colombian avocado sector is applying a clear postharvest protocol. Most likely the growing conditions are the reason for most postharvest quality issues. Nevertheless the methodology for maturity measurement and temperature strategies after harvest can be improved. Therefore Wageningen Food and Biobased Research and Agrosavia defined two pilots in order to find postharvest solutions for the critical points of the Colombian Hass avocado sector.