If after the first harvest of a new orchard you are told that the yield was not as expected due to irrigation errors in the first few years, all you have to do is hold your head and see how to improve for the future.
We are in the normal planting season and in the project flow the plots are projected with X ton/ha, ensuring this is met is key to the survival of the project, or its financial health. Therefore, the work must be audited to identify points for improvement.
In continuous improvement we look for the causes of failure and success. This allows the team to learn and be able to plan projects in the future, minimising losses and not committing them from the start. This is key.
When the series of factors involved in the problem are not identified, we lose the opportunity to learn and improve.
Factors such as: planting date, soil type versus irrigation, branching management (incision), orthopedics (toothpicks, ties) and initial renewal pruning, etc., could have been immensely influential in the result of the initial example. Real, of course.
A well-trained team focused on improvement will take advantage of this experience to burn into memory:
- Important milestones:
- Green tip date for incision
- Optimal moment for performing orthopedics
- Parameters to monitor:
- Soil moisture at root level
When we talk about auditing a job, for example incision in cherry trees, the quality parameters of the job are established:
- Is the location and size of the incision appropriate?
- Were all required buds incised?
- Are tools disinfected according to guidelines?
Having a clear, written guideline for each orchard, defined tolerances and goals, and a monitoring system that generates data and its visualization adequate In real time, they will allow us to correct the detected faults hour by hour and will make a difference.
Compás Agrosistemas has been working with farmers for 7 years to train teams in their role of thoroughly evaluating the results of each season, in order to identify critical points and be able to plan the key milestones of the upcoming campaign, as well as the monitoring and supervision requirements. Additionally, we have designed appropriate systems for recording and viewing supervisions that allow us to identify which supervisor is failing or which parameter and in which specific worker the failure has occurred, in order to evaluate whether this has been corrected or not, in order to carry out an adequate follow-up.
Contact us to help you build simple but solid information systems that can be used as tools for your team to control your work.
To learn more about our work, schedule a meeting at: www.compasagrosistemas.cl.
