AZUL IMPIRICO
Avocado is one of the crops that has grown the most in recent years in Portugal, thus joining the focus on olive and almond groves. In the case of avocados, this fruit is no longer produced only in the Algarve, expanding to other regions such as the Alentejo coast. The Aquaterra group chose Portugal to invest in this subtropical crop due to the edaphoclimatic conditions that certain regions of the national territory have for the production of this fruit tree. To carry out this investment, the company Azul Empírico was created and avocado trees began to sprout little by little in several farms along the Alentejo coast. In 2022, at Herdade do Mar, in the municipality of Grândola, 212 hectares of Hass avocados were planted. The installation of the irrigation system was carried out by Magos Irrigation Systems. «The irrigation work was installed from scratch and assembled all at once», says Paco Albuixech, field manager at Azul Empírico.
