Products
Products
We work closely with our clients and growers to meet the market’s demands. Our main products are Mange Tout, Sugar Snap Peas, Blackberries, French Beans and Avocados. Due to our strong relationship with professional growers in Guatemala we can get other products if required by our clients.
Snow Peas
Green Beans
Avocados
Blackberries
Sugar Snap Peas
Packing
We have an efficient packaging plant in which we classify and pack the product according to each client’s specifications.
We do a wide variety of prepacks according to our clients’ specifications. This kind of packaging, whether in bags or punnets, help preserve the shelf-life of our products and offer a better presentation to the consumer. For the wholesale sector we also work with bulk packages.
Our pack house works with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and has HACCP certification as well as BRC and SMETA.
In our packing plant we have specialized refrigerated cold storage rooms for each product, special loading and unloading areas, vegetable sorting with specialized machines to pack.
We also have a packing machine to clean and classify avocados. In order to offer the best avocado quality to our customers, we have made alliances with several of the best avocado producers in Guatemala.
Field
We sign contracts with medium and small holder grower groups of producers in the Guatemalan Highlands.
Before signing a contract, our technical staff visits and evaluates the plantations in order to verify that they fulfill the agricultural, environmental and food safety regulations.
FRUTESA offers the contracted growers partial financing of seeds, agricultural inputs, technical assistance, supervision of the different crops and management support.
Ongoing training programs have resulted in using fewer pesticides and applying more physical, ethological and biological methods to the integrated pest control management. This benefits the environment and the growers and consumers health
We work with groups of farmers with GLOBAL G.A.P. certification which allows us to guarantee that they work with good agricultural practices and meet the high standards of our clients.
Logistics
We export by air, land and sea using the best logistic services to ensure the best and most efficient cargo handling.
Corporate Social Responsibility
FRUTESA acts as a strong link between our international clients and our Guatemalan growers, and we believe that when one of these sides improves, the other will too.
Therefore, since the beginning FRUTESA helps its growers as much as possible, accompanying them on the path of success and development so that they can improve their quality of life.
The contracts that we sign with the growers give them the certainty of having a buyer before they even start planting, and the assurance that they will also receive a fair price.
Since 1983 FRUTESA has never failed to honor a contract or missed a single payment which results in an impeccable out in every transaction.
