Our company was born in Costa Rica, Central America, as an organization which exports fresh fruits and vegetables to Canada with the quality standards.

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Our company was born in Costa Rica, Central America, as an organization which exports fresh fruits and vegetables to Canada with the quality standards required by the market for end consumers

Costa Rica, has two oceans, and has two major ports to export Costa Rica, has two oceans, and has two major ports to export. By road, there are 238km between the two ports. The travel time is four hours ten minutes, if you decide to travel by car between these ports. If you export to Vancouver, Canada. A shipping company has a maritime traffic of about 19 days, and to Toronto or Montreal the time is between 9 to 10 days

Comply with market requirements, it has always been the goal of the company, so in the issue of quality, we are devoted to the fullest with all our export products. The trainings for farmers and for people working in the packing plant, are part of the answer to maintain the necessary quality and food safety control and traceability of the products we ship in each of our exports.

The company also has a group of collaborators for the packing process, they work with the different products that we export, this staff has an extend experience in their specialized tasks. Also, the company has field inspectors, which arrive weekly to cultivated plots to follow up on good agricultural practices, and check the quality of the products that are exported. So our company is small, but well organized

The company creates its bases through a strategic alliance with a group of farmers, that start working with papaya and guava, always with a view to export. The efforts of the alliance with farmers reach their goals in 2016 when we were able to export papaya to Canada every week since late January until the present date. Today, in addition to the amount of papaya that we regularly export, we can export two more containers each with 1080 boxes of 14Kg of papaya, in every week during the year. We can even create a program in the medium term, to double current production

The Pococí papaya weighs 1 Kg to 1 The Pococí papaya weighs 1 Kg to 1.5Kg, the central cavity of the fruit is round. Brix grades are in the statistical range of 11 to 13 degrees but often the sweet is greater. The maturity with which we, Geo Fresh Costa Rica, work regularly when exporting is two to three stripes defined, but from December to April we can export to 85% of maturation or four to five stripes maturity . We also have the knowledge to harvest other stages of development about growing papaya. We cut green papaya for the kitchen of Costa Rica, who used to prepare local dishes.

Our papaya, is the Pococí variety, which was the result of scientific research conducted by experts from the University of Costa Rica, it is we have available for you. This variety Pococí born in a farm of one of our suppliers and is known in the trade as the perfect papaya

Other products that we export and quite often to Canada, are as follows:

Guava (Psidium guajava). The variety we offer is the Tae-ku-bar Guava (Psidium guajava). The variety we offer is the Tae-ku-bar. We have an average amount of 3,500 Kg per week throughout the year.

Pineapple (Ananas comosus) variety MD2 Amounts per week are varied during the year We have great capacity for organic pineapple and we also offer the traditional pineapple

Coconut Brown (Cocos nucifera), we have the ability to export 3,500 coconuts every 15 days throughout the year.

Green Coconut (Cocos nucifera), can export every week until 11,000 Green Coconut, throughout the year.

Soursop (Annona muricata) 2500 kg weekly all year.

Rambutan (Nephelium lappaceum) 5000 kg weekly between September and November

Mangosteen (Garcinia mangostana) 2000 kg per week from September to October.

Chayote (Sechium edule), can export 20,000 kilograms every week throughout the year and depending on the needs can program up to triple production.

Green banana (Musa paradisiaca), 22,000 kg per week throughout the year and depending on the needs can increase production with relative ease.

Platano red or Red Dhaka (Musa acuminata) 2,000 kilos per week throughout the year and depending on the needs can increase production with relative ease.

Squash or pumpkin (Cucurbita argyrosperma) variety Arjuna 25,000 kg per week all year.

Squash or pumpkin (Cucurbita argyrosperma) known as long-necked, butter, goldenseal, 25,000 kilos per week all year.

Sugarcane (Saccharum officinarum), 2500 kilos every week throughout the year

Eddos Tiquizque Lila y Tiquisque Blanco (big taro) Tiquisque lilac and white (big taro) (Xanthosoma sagittifolium), Malanga or Eddos (Colocasia esculenta) Coconut Malanga (Xanthosoma spp) weekly production of 2500-3500 kg throughout the year. Malanga Coco

Yampeen (Colocasia esculenta var Yampeen (Colocasia esculenta var. Antiquorum Araceae), Ginger (Zingiber officinalis) from 2.500 to 4.500 kilograms per week for each round. Ginger Yampeen

Cassava (Manihot esculenta) variety Valencia, paraffin 50,000 kg per week per year. Yams (Dioscorea spp) 25,000 kg per week per year. Yuca or Cassava Yams

Products such as melon (Cucumis melo) and watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) in the season from December to March in amounts up to 40,000 kg per week Melon Watermelon

Carrot (Daucus carota) For the months of November to July can export up to 135,000 kg per week, or for the whole year depending on the export agreement.

Other products also have available...

Thank you for your time www.geofresh-cr.com International Business: Orlando, Florida, USA. Phone: +1 407 970 5880 (English & Spanish) Business Hours: 8am-7pm M-F. (UTC-04:00). e-mail: borbon@geofresh-cr.com Headquarters: San José, Costa Rica. Phone: +506 7208-8292(Spanish) Business Hours: 8am-7pm M-F. (UTC-06:00) Central America. e-mail: elmer@geofresh-cr.com Packing Plant: Pocora, Limón, Costa Rica. Phone: +506 8710-4747 (Spanish) Business Hours: 8am-7pm M-F. (UTC-06:00) Central America. e-mail: steiner@geofresh-cr.com www.geofresh-cr.com