Broccoli
Two of Hortiberia's member companies, Agromark and Cricket, have specialised in brassicas for decades, and broccoli is the centrepiece of that work. Agromark has supplied UK supermarket chains since the 1980s and describes itself as Spain's largest producer of organic brassicas; Cricket runs an EU-certified organic line alongside its conventional crop. The result for the buyer is a product available all year round, in organic and conventional, from a single exporter.
Availability
Technical data
- Category
- Vegetables
- Weight
- 300 - 660 g.
- Varieties
- Marathon, Parthenon, Monaco, Sena, Lord
- Transport temperature
- 1º - 4º C
- Packaging
- Cardboard box
Cardboard box, woord, bag and hice
Granel 9 kg / Europalet 48 – Palet 60
Granel 6 kg / Europalet 76 – Palet 95
Granel 5 kg / Europalet 80 – Palet 100
Filmed 250 gr (24 x 250)
Filmed 400 gr (12 x 400)
Filmed 500 gr (6 x 500 – 10 x 500 – 14 x 500) - Production
- Available as organic and conventional
- Guarantees
- GLOBALG.A.P. and IFS across the group's growers · lot and farm traceability
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Full product sheet
Varieties and head weight
Varieties grown are Marathon, Parthenon, Monaco, Sena and Lord, with heads weighing between 300 and 660 g.
Packing options
- Cardboard box; also cardboard or wooden box with bag and ice for longer journeys.
- 9 kg loose: 48 boxes per Euro pallet, 60 per 100×120 pallet.
- 6 kg loose: 76 per Euro pallet, 95 per 100×120 pallet.
- 5 kg loose: 80 per Euro pallet, 100 per 100×120 pallet.
- Film-wrapped 250 g (24 × 250), 400 g (12 × 400) and 500 g (6, 10 or 14 × 500).
Field preparation and vacuum cooling
Most of the broccoli is trimmed and packed in the field, then taken through vacuum cooling, which brings the head from around 20 °C down to 3 °C in cycles of an hour or less. From there it travels at 1-4 °C, top-iced where the destination requires it, with the cold chain unbroken to the customer's depot.
Certification and traceability
Organic broccoli is certified under the EU regulation, with Cricket's line controlled by CAERM, the organic farming council of the Region of Murcia, and shipped separately from conventional product. The group's growers work under GLOBALG.A.P. and IFS as well as the equivalent standards demanded by UK and continental retailers, with lot-level traceability back to the plot and full compliance with EU residue and labelling rules.
Weekly programmes can be set with Hortiberia for any mix of formats and organic share, and adjusted as retail demand moves through the year.
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