Trần Vinh Quang

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Report Avocado harvesting

 Introduce

Australians love eating avocado and the people who grow those avocados
take a lot of pride in getting the best possible product to market to help with
this avocados Australian funded by the industry has deve

 To harvest avocado well, safety and avoid damaging, there are

two very important things to remember:

 Ask first if you do not know

 Cut the avocado do not harvest it from the high
 Dont drop it with the high over 30cm(If you drop the a fruit discard, it
damaged caused by dropping may not be immediately visible but it will
show up up to several days or the fruit is cut open.)
 Clothing and Tools
When picking , protective clothes are:
 Hat

 Shoes

 The sunscreen

 Safety glasses

 Pick a bankable

Snip or snap? Why do we need to snap avocado?

 The most common way to harvest common avocado varieties is
snapping. However, Shepard and other green varieties have thinner
skin and it easily cracks when snapping. So the best way to harvest
them is snipping.
  Cut stems should be no longer than 5mm and ideally 2mm.
 Noticed
Cut the stems should be no longer than 5mm and ideally 2mm.

 The bag carrying avocado

Touch the bag to the top layer of fruit then slowly lift it so the avocados roll out
gently into the bin.

 Do not let the bins overfill

If the bin is overfilled the fruit will get squashed when another bin is stacked on
top and damaged by the heavy forklift times.

 Why we have to protect the bins after harvested

 Covering the bin help shade of fruit from the sun and protects it in case
it rains.
 Drive be careful and slow
 Do not pick when it rains
 Avocados become even more sensitive to knocks and bumps. This can
cause skin spotting and other damaged with leads to the fruit being
downgraded complaints from the markets and the grower getting a
lower price for their produce.

 Using the hydraulic picker

 Before you can use the hydraulic ladder known as a cherry picker.You
will need to complete an on-farm induction program. You must carry out
a thorough inspection of the equipment every day and fill in the
operators checklist form.
 On most Australian avocado farms about 80% of the fruit is picked
using the cherry picker.
 Make sure the bag touches the top layer of fruit in the bin before you
begin emptying by slowly raising the bag.
 After finished harvest
 Finally, precious green cargo arrives back at the farm ready to be transported
to be the pack house.