With this harvest dashboard, we aim to keep you informed about the status of the harvest in each of the seven origins where Caravela operates, providing you with valuable information that will help you stay up to date of what’s happening on-the-ground.
Please visit this page frequently as we will be updating it at least once a month. If you have any specific questions, do not hesitate to contact us directly!
Last Update August 17, 2023
Field Notes | Next Steps |
| PECA continues to work in the field hand-in-hand with our quality team, offering guidance and feedback to coffee growers based on the previous harvest, their own needs of each farm, and taking into account the stage of the harvest cycle for each farm. For the whole month of July, our team has been monitoring plagues and diseases that could affect the trees. As of now, the levels of leaf rust remain below 3%, which is favorable for coffee growers. However, coffee growers are implementing all the care and prevention strategies to keep it this way. On the other hand, in lower altitude farms (1,000 – 1,250 MASL) we’re seeing levels of berry borer of 2% due to the climatic conditions, but coffee growers are taking the respective cares to avoid the plague to continue spreading. In August, the monitoring activities will continue in addition to collecting surveys for our prosperity index, which will allow us to identify gaps and continue making coffee better. | The team continues to ship containers at full speed. In July, they shipped one of our last containers for Australia while the PECA and quality team work together visiting farms, giving feedback from the previous harvest and identifying improvement opportunities for the next harvest cycle. The plan in August is to finish all the shipments and this way officially conclude the 2022-2023 season! |
Field Notes | Next Steps |
| In July, our team continues to carry out follow up farm visits throughout all the regions where we work in Guatemala. This is a very critical and important stage in the harvest cycle and is of paramount importance that we are present, guiding coffee growers and advising them on their farm management. July was characterized by climatic unevenness, with high temperatures and very strong rains un short periods of time. For this reason, the farm visits were focused on plague and disease treatments so that they don’t affect the new upcoming harvest. The PECA team has been very enthusiastic to continue strengthening the relationships with each one of our farmer partners. | We’re about to finalize shipments in Guatemala. July was not exempted of logistical issues in Guatemala, as lack of availability in the shipping lines and roll-overs, made us delay a couple of shipments to August. We still have some containers waiting to hit the water towards Australia and Asia. Finally, our last shipments will be a container of organic coffee from our own value chain that we worked to strengthen this year in Guatemala and will be available as SPOT in our Customer Relationship Offices. This Organic Value Chain Project in Guatemala was launched in 2022 after a thorough analysis and preliminary work carried out by our PECA team. The project opened the opportunity to work with small-scale producers who have implemented in their farms organic practices but that face several obstacles when trying to enter the specialty coffee market and earn a living income. The project currently impacts 300 producers within 3 coffee regions: Huehuetenango, San Marcos and Sololá. |
Field Notes | Next Steps |
| August is a crucial month for us and for coffee growers in Mexico. Cherries in farms located at 1,200 MASL already have over 180 days of development and are very advanced in their filling, while farms that are at a higher altitude are less developed and are just starting the filling process. This is the stage where we start a very important stage that is the crop forecast. Our mission for the month of August is to visit farms to carry out farm visits for harvest forecast to estimate the volumes coming in the upcoming harvest and being able to guarantee contracts to our customers. Our expectations are that the harvest will concentrate in only two stages, the first pickings will start at the end of October, representing only 20% of the whole harvest, and its peak will be in December. The second stage will start in November and the peak will take place in January and February. Additionally, we’ll continue measure the prosperity index and carbon footprint of farms in Mexico to find strategies to close the gaps and mitigate the climatic impact. | Our PECA team has been actively working on providing feedback and recommendations to coffee growers, taking into account the results of the previous harvest and improvement opportunities. In the next month, we will also start internal audits for our organic value chain in Mexico. In August, our team will be building and implementing drying beds donated by some of our partner roasters in the US to improve the quality of the drying for the future. Coffee growers that are receiving their new drying beds are extremely grateful and exciting to start using it as soon as possible! August will also mark the closure of the 2022-2023 harvest in Mexico as we will ship the last container of the harvest to the US. If you’re interested in Mexican coffee, make sure you get these fresh gems that are now arriving to their destinations at our Customer Relationships Offices. |
Field Notes | Next Steps |
| Our PECA team is currently offering technical assistance to coffee growers in the regions where we are present. The hottest temperatures of the year, where the moisture of the soil is lower, happen between July 15th and August 15th, so our team is very aware of the nutrition of the crop during these times, and guarantee that the fertilizations are carried out just after the 15th of August. During the farm visits, our PECA team has been monitoring berry borer and leaf rust and making their respective recommendations and feedback. We’re also sharing the weather patters for coffee growers to be aware of how to manage their fertilizations. The crop forecast estimates the harvest to start at the end of October, marking the peak in January and February 2024. Additionally, in July, we celebrated Caravela’s 10th anniversary in Nicaragua as well as the closure of the harvest. We had the pleasure of celebrating this milestone with more than 130 attendees including producers who have been key partners since 2013! We received many positive comments from all attendees. | Nicaragua has completed 100% of all shipments to all our Customer Relationship Offices. The team is now getting together to collect all the feedback and improvement opportunities for next season. The focus right now is to prepare our team, our infrastructure, and the producers we work with to receive the new harvest. |
Field Notes | Next Steps |
| The advancement of the harvest is at an average of 90% throughout the different areas where Caravela is present. The climate has been varied with some sunny days and rainy ones, expecting for dryer days to come as would be usual for these months. Little by little, we’ve noticed a reduction in cherry picking as it is almost the end of the harvest. Some small flowerings have been seen during the last weeks of July, which will be the first pickings of 2024. Producers have started working on fertilization, weed control, and disease and plague control. We are expecting for the second cycle of production to start in about two months, with great expectation as the flowering during the biggening of the year was good in volume and concentrated. | On our next steps, we continue with the implementation of the norms for the environmental certifications, RFA and Organic. While for C.A.F.E Practices we’re starting the visits to producers in Palestina for the recertification. We continue with the measurements regarding the planting of trees that were given to producers, plus delivering the component of the food sustainability project to 30 families. Our PECA team will also continue with the implementation of information gathering to build the sustainability index and start the harvest estimates for the second semester harvest, expecting the pickings to start in September / October depending on the municipality. As always PECA will keep visiting producers and advising them on the different farm practices plus working with them on the different sustainability projects. |
Field Notes | Next Steps |
| The harvest is still on-going with sunny days helping with drying and ripening of the cherries. At Loja the harvest has advanced at full throttle with 92% advancement and finishing soon the harvest. In Zamora we have already passed the peak of the harvest and are at an 83% advancement. In the north the harvest is at an 86% advancement with a few farms expecting a harvest during November, which is atypical given the climate change effects. | We continue with the process of certifications, both Organic and C.A.F.E Practices in continental Ecuador. Continuing with the purchase of coffee in August, plus continue with the measurements for the prosperity index. The PECA team will focus on advice regarding post-harvest processes, fermentation, drying and more. |
Field Notes | Next Steps |
| We’re currently in the peak of the harvest, receiving more volumes of coffee in our purchasing stations day by day. During July, in Cajamarca our team prepared for the peak of the harvest. We did notice during the purchase that the overall quality compared to last year’s harvest was lower due to the high prices of 2022, as producers neglected some of the practices at the farms to achieve good qualities such as fertilization, pruning and drying. We have seen some rejections due to effects caused by leaf rust but on the bright side, the current sunny days have favored good drying of the coffees. On the south, we’re reaching the peak of the harvest at the farms located between 1,600 MASL and 2,200 MASL. Our quality team has started to see effects of the dry season as during the filling of the cherry with the dryness it has caused lower volumes. Producers both in Cusco and Cajamarca are harvesting their coffee and carrying on post-harvest practices, with many looking for workers to pick the cherries. In the north, our PECA team has been focusing on the follow-up towards farms which have a certain issue with leaf rust with recommendations regarding fertilization, pruning, shade management and usage of fungicides. In the south, the work mostly has been focused on receiving the coffee at the purchasing stations and working alongside the producers to have an adequate drying of the coffee. In the south we have been seeing more solid coffees. Country wise, there were some protests going on, mostly seen in Cusco and they are focused against the government. | Our next steps with our PECA team are to move forwards with the plan to mitigate the effects of the El Niño Phenomenon. This will be carried out with personalized visits to give recommendations to producers, elaborate fertilization plans, and strategies in case of extreme droughts. There will also be a focus on workshops involving harvest and post-harvest, processes and continue with the purchase of coffee with RFA certification. With ongoing purchase, we expect to start seeing better quality coffees arriving to the purchasing stations in August of AA+ qualities. On the other hand, we have started with the milling of the coffee to start shipping in August. |
With this harvest dashboard, we aim to keep you informed about the status of the harvest in each of the seven origins where Caravela operates, providing you with valuable information that will help you stay up to date of what’s happening on-the-ground.
Please visit this page frequently as we will be updating it at least once a month. If you have any specific questions, do not hesitate to contact us directly!
Last Update August 17, 2023
Field Notes
PECA continues to work in the field hand-in-hand with our quality team, offering guidance and feedback to coffee growers based on the previous harvest, their own needs of each farm, and taking into account the stage of the harvest cycle for each farm.
For the whole month of July, our team has been monitoring plagues and diseases that could affect the trees. As of now, the levels of leaf rust remain below 3%, which is favorable for coffee growers. However, coffee growers are implementing all the care and prevention strategies to keep it this way.
On the other hand, in lower altitude farms (1,000 – 1,250 MASL) we’re seeing levels of berry borer of 2% due to the climatic conditions, but coffee growers are taking the respective cares to avoid the plague to continue spreading. In August, the monitoring activities will continue in addition to collecting surveys for our prosperity index, which will allow us to identify gaps and continue making coffee better.
Next Steps
The team continues to ship containers at full speed. In July, they shipped one of our last containers for Australia while the PECA and quality team work together visiting farms, giving feedback from the previous harvest and identifying improvement opportunities for the next harvest cycle. The plan in August is to finish all the shipments and this way officially conclude the 2022-2023 season!
Field Notes
In July, our team continues to carry out follow up farm visits throughout all the regions where we work in Guatemala. This is a very critical and important stage in the harvest cycle and is of paramount importance that we are present, guiding coffee growers and advising them on their farm management. July was characterized by climatic unevenness, with high temperatures and very strong rains un short periods of time. For this reason, the farm visits were focused on plague and disease treatments so that they don’t affect the new upcoming harvest. The PECA team has been very enthusiastic to continue strengthening the relationships with each one of our farmer partners.
Next Steps
We’re about to finalize shipments in Guatemala. July was not exempted of logistical issues in Guatemala, as lack of availability in the shipping lines and roll-overs, made us delay a couple of shipments to August. We still have some containers waiting to hit the water towards Australia and Asia. Finally, our last shipments will be a container of organic coffee from our own value chain that we worked to strengthen this year in Guatemala and will be available as SPOT in our Customer Relationship Offices. This Organic Value Chain Project in Guatemala was launched in 2022 after a thorough analysis and preliminary work carried out by our PECA team. The project opened the opportunity to work with small-scale producers who have implemented in their farms organic practices but that face several obstacles when trying to enter the specialty coffee market and earn a living income. The project currently impacts 300 producers within 3 coffee regions: Huehuetenango, San Marcos and Sololá.
Field Notes
August is a crucial month for us and for coffee growers in Mexico. Cherries in farms located at 1,200 MASL already have over 180 days of development and are very advanced in their filling, while farms that are at a higher altitude are less developed and are just starting the filling process. This is the stage where we start a very important stage that is the crop forecast. Our mission for the month of August is to visit farms to carry out farm visits for harvest forecast to estimate the volumes coming in the upcoming harvest and being able to guarantee contracts to our customers. Our expectations are that the harvest will concentrate in only two stages, the first pickings will start at the end of October, representing only 20% of the whole harvest, and its peak will be in December. The second stage will start in November and the peak will take place in January and February. Additionally, we’ll continue measure the prosperity index and carbon footprint of farms in Mexico to find strategies to close the gaps and mitigate the climatic impact.
Next Steps
Our PECA team has been actively working on providing feedback and recommendations to coffee growers, taking into account the results of the previous harvest and improvement opportunities. In the next month, we will also start internal audits for our organic value chain in Mexico. In August, our team will be building and implementing drying beds donated by some of our partner roasters in the US to improve the quality of the drying for the future. Coffee growers that are receiving their new drying beds are extremely grateful and exciting to start using it as soon as possible! August will also mark the closure of the 2022-2023 harvest in Mexico as we will ship the last container of the harvest to the US. If you’re interested in Mexican coffee, make sure you get these fresh gems that are now arriving to their destinations at our Customer Relationships Offices.
Field Notes
Our PECA team is currently offering technical assistance to coffee growers in the regions where we are present. The hottest temperatures of the year, where the moisture of the soil is lower, happen between July 15th and August 15th, so our team is very aware of the nutrition of the crop during these times, and guarantee that the fertilizations are carried out just after the 15th of August. During the farm visits, our PECA team has been monitoring berry borer and leaf rust and making their respective recommendations and feedback. We’re also sharing the weather patters for coffee growers to be aware of how to manage their fertilizations. The crop forecast estimates the harvest to start at the end of October, marking the peak in January and February 2024.
Additionally, in July, we celebrated Caravela’s 10th anniversary in Nicaragua as well as the closure of the harvest. We had the pleasure of celebrating this milestone with more than 130 attendees including producers who have been key partners since 2013! We received many positive comments from all attendees.
Next Steps
Nicaragua has completed 100% of all shipments to all our Customer Relationship Offices. The team is now getting together to collect all the feedback and improvement opportunities for next season. The focus right now is to prepare our team, our infrastructure, and the producers we work with to receive the new harvest.
Field Notes
The advancement of the harvest is at an average of 90% throughout the different areas where Caravela is present. The climate has been varied with some sunny days and rainy ones, expecting for dryer days to come as would be usual for these months. Little by little, we’ve noticed a reduction in cherry picking as it is almost the end of the harvest. Some small flowerings have been seen during the last weeks of July, which will be the first pickings of 2024. Producers have started working on fertilization, weed control, and disease and plague control. We are expecting for the second cycle of production to start in about two months, with great expectation as the flowering during the biggening of the year was good in volume and concentrated.
Next Steps
On our next steps, we continue with the implementation of the norms for the environmental certifications, RFA and Organic. While for C.A.F.E Practices we’re starting the visits to producers in Palestina for the recertification. We continue with the measurements regarding the planting of trees that were given to producers, plus delivering the component of the food sustainability project to 30 families. Our PECA team will also continue with the implementation of information gathering to build the sustainability index and start the harvest estimates for the second semester harvest, expecting the pickings to start in September / October depending on the municipality. As always PECA will keep visiting producers and advising them on the different farm practices plus working with them on the different sustainability projects.
Field Notes
The harvest is still on-going with sunny days helping with drying and ripening of the cherries. At Loja the harvest has advanced at full throttle with 92% advancement and finishing soon the harvest. In Zamora we have already passed the peak of the harvest and are at an 83% advancement. In the north the harvest is at an 86% advancement with a few farms expecting a harvest during November, which is atypical given the climate change effects.
Next Steps
We continue with the process of certifications, both Organic and C.A.F.E Practices in continental Ecuador. Continuing with the purchase of coffee in August, plus continue with the measurements for the prosperity index. The PECA team will focus on advice regarding post-harvest processes, fermentation, drying and more.
Field Notes
We’re currently in the peak of the harvest, receiving more volumes of coffee in our purchasing stations day by day. During July, in Cajamarca our team prepared for the peak of the harvest. We did notice during the purchase that the overall quality compared to last year’s harvest was lower due to the high prices of 2022, as producers neglected some of the practices at the farms to achieve good qualities such as fertilization, pruning and drying. We have seen some rejections due to effects caused by leaf rust but on the bright side, the current sunny days have favored good drying of the coffees.
On the south, we’re reaching the peak of the harvest at the farms located between 1,600 MASL and 2,200 MASL. Our quality team has started to see effects of the dry season as during the filling of the cherry with the dryness it has caused lower volumes. Producers both in Cusco and Cajamarca are harvesting their coffee and carrying on post-harvest practices, with many looking for workers to pick the cherries.
In the north, our PECA team has been focusing on the follow-up towards farms which have a certain issue with leaf rust with recommendations regarding fertilization, pruning, shade management and usage of fungicides. In the south, the work mostly has been focused on receiving the coffee at the purchasing stations and working alongside the producers to have an adequate drying of the coffee. In the south we have been seeing more solid coffees.
Country wise, there were some protests going on, mostly seen in Cusco and they are focused against the government.
Next Steps
Our next steps with our PECA team are to move forwards with the plan to mitigate the effects of the El Niño Phenomenon. This will be carried out with personalized visits to give recommendations to producers, elaborate fertilization plans, and strategies in case of extreme droughts. There will also be a focus on workshops involving harvest and post-harvest, processes and continue with the purchase of coffee with RFA certification. With ongoing purchase, we expect to start seeing better quality coffees arriving to the purchasing stations in August of AA+ qualities. On the other hand, we have started with the milling of the coffee to start shipping in August.