Two weeks ago I went to work in Anacafé with an agricultural engineer because next year I want to study agronomy in the Rafael Landivar University. All the seniors were working because it was to get an experience in the job we want to perform some day in the future after graduating. Also because it is part of the senior´s pensum too. I like this activity because is a way to be more confident about the career we want to study. Also because is a way to not change career´s when we are in the middle of the semester like some of the people do.
My experience began working at the office of Anacafé on monday. In the office I got experience attending some clients who wanted the service of the engineer. This company focus on the lands of coffee of all Guatemala. Their are one of the most popular producers of the coffee we consume now on days. Actually the coffee of Guatemala is one of the top 10 in the whole world.
The second day I went to Escuintla with 14 more engineers of Anacafé. This engineers are part of the technical team of the company. We visited a land that is call " Finca San Antonio Las Lagunas" this land had a problem because they were having problems with mushrooms in their plants of coffee. This disease is call " La Roya" wich kills the plant and if one plant of coffee is infected it can infect the other ones in a short period of time. So my work was to help some guys to apply one new product call "verdadero" that helps the plant to prevent this disease.
The next day I went to a land call "Finca Fátima" that is located in Villa Canales. We went with the engineer to check how was the coffee production doing. This land was like we expected. All the problems it had they were not longer there. So we collected some of the coffee of the land that was already good. We made that through all the land so we walked a lot!.
On Wednesday we went to another land call " Finca Buena Vista" this land was having other problems because the plant leaves were not growing up like it suppose to. We began walking through all the land and find out that it was cause by the lack of zinc and boro that helps the plant to mature in the correct way. So the engineer began to explain to the workers who are in charge of this land how to apply it without hurting the plant.
Then on Thursday we went to a land call " Finca San José Las Flores". This land was one of the biggest I have ever seen. It was located in Carretera al Salvador. This land was having problems with the weather because it was raining to much during several days and it affected many plants of coffee. This is an common problem but the weather is something we can´t control. The other thing was that it had the disease of Roya too. So we began applying the treatment for the plants. We spent a lot of time because it was a very big land.
And for last, on Friday I spent another day working at the office attending other clients.
At the end I liked the experience a lot, I can say that I also learned a lot about coffee. I like this career also because Guatemala is a beautiful place for producing food. I also like the idea of helping the economy of Guatemala by increasing the amount of exportation.
I LOVE MY FUTURE CAREER :)
