​Harvesting garlic days came up in Andalusia

Once Demoagro Farm Fair 2015 has been explained we should return to posts about farming tasks in this season... it is our main editorial line. The harvesting spring garlic days began in Andalusia few weeks ago. In general, spring garlic and purple garlic are also being harvested in Spain (Las Pedroñeras, Chinchón, Valladolid,...). One more time, we are speaking about our favorite crop: garlic.

Harvesting season for spring garlic began near Sevilla and Córdoba (both of them are very important areas together with our area to grow garlic). The Proaco company has set up their ERME harvester machines. As you can see in our pictures, they were using some four rows harvester cutter... their performance are fantastic so they allow employees to work a lot of hectares per day. There is a problem: they need to use a really good transport system to move a large amount of big bags and they have to dry ​this garlic quickly to avoid any problems that can be generated because of tender garlic.

On this occasion, the Erme machinery is quite old (they are from the 90's... they have evolved a lot about the current), but they continue working very hard and without problems... ERME manufactures pretty garlic machinery!! These garlic harvester cutters highlight because they use rubber conveyor belt, electrohydraulic system to operate it by one person and a system to fill some types of big bags or palots. We have an Erme garlic harvester too but our Erme machine is a two rows binder harvester so bulbs are lifted and tied creating small bunches. Harvester cutters aren't yet use very frequently in our area. Farmers of our area like to harvest garlic with its stem and about 15 days after that they cut stems and roots manually... our handling and sales processes are different.

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