Flor Del Laja

Testimonial

Flor Del Laja

Ignacio Jimenez

Ignacio is the general manager of Agrícola y Ganadera Avellanos Flor del Laja, located in Yumbel, Biobío Region. In 2017, they embarked on a new project to prove that the family livestock and forestry farm had potential as a hazelnut orchard. They currently have 32 ha of Yamhill variety hazelnuts with double drip lines and a precipitation rate of 2 lt/h. They have irrigation and fertigation monitoring and control, as well as climate and soil moisture monitoring.

Hazelnut
120 hectares
Water sources

I was a slave to the irrigation shed, but the implementation of DropControl made my life easier, especially in an orchard where I am the one in charge of carrying out the irrigation and fertilization.

Yamhill hazelnuts on double drip lines in Yumbel, on what used to be a livestock and forestry farm, show that irrigation and fertigation control can be set up from the start for a crop that is new to the property. How each crop is irrigated, from hazelnuts to fruit trees and vines, is covered in our irrigation solutions for each crop.

We were flying blind during the first two years without data. Now that we have information, we realized that irrigation times had to be adjusted and the change is noticeable. Just through water management, the new orchard had better development.