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Dominican Republic fresh produce export calendar

The Dominican Republic ships organic bananas year-round and green-skin avocados on a long window. Month by month, out of Caucedo and Río Haina.

Load ports
Caucedo, Río Haina, and Manzanillo
Produce covered
Banana Banana Avocado Avocado
Dominican Republic fresh produce export calendar: which produce ships in which month.
Produce January February March April May June July August September October November December
Banana January: Peak February: Peak March: Peak April: Peak May: Peak June: Peak July: Peak August: Peak September: Peak October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Avocado January: Peak February: Peak March: Shoulder April: Not shipping May: Not shipping June: Not shipping July: Not shipping August: Shoulder September: Shoulder October: Peak November: Peak December: Peak
Peak — shipping in volume Shoulder — opening or closing Export windows out of the origin, not arrival weeks. Add the lane's transit.

Last reviewed August 2026. Windows are editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule, and they are export weeks out of Dominican Republic rather than arrival weeks in your market.

The Dominican Republic is the organic banana origin. A disproportionate share of what European retail sells as organic comes from here, and the reason is climate rather than policy: the dry growing regions in Azua and the north-west make organic production practical in a way the wet Latin American lowlands do not. That is a different programme and a different price from the conventional volume on the Ecuador and Colombia pages — and it is a certified one, which means the paperwork travels with the fruit or the premium does not survive the arrival.

The avocado row is not the same fruit as everywhere else on this calendar. The Dominican crop is green-skin — Semil 34 and Carla — larger than a Hass, lower in oil, and sold mostly into the US East Coast rather than into European retail. Reading it as an alternative Hass source is reading the wrong row. Both crops sit on very short lanes: Caucedo is under a week from the US East Coast and around a fortnight from Northern Europe, which is what makes a fruit sold on freshness work from an island this size.

Banana

Ships year-round Varieties: Cavendish

Every week of the year, and a large share of it certified organic — which is what the origin is for. The dry growing regions in Azua and the north-west make organic production practical in a way the wet Latin American lowlands do not, so a disproportionate amount of what European retail sells as organic banana comes off this island.

That changes what can go wrong. A conventional banana that arrives without its paperwork is still a banana; an organic one that arrives without its certificate is a conventional banana sold at a conventional price. On this row the documents are worth as much attention as the reefer.

Banana season across every origin

Avocado

October–February peak · March, August–September shoulder Varieties: Semil 34, Carla

Roughly August to March, peaking through the Northern Hemisphere autumn and winter. This is not Hass. The Dominican crop is green-skin — Semil 34 and Carla — larger, lower in oil, and sold mainly into the US East Coast rather than into European retail.

So read this row alongside the Hass origins rather than as one of them. It is a different fruit at a different price into a different market, and the reason it works at all is distance: Caucedo is under a week from the US East Coast, which is short enough for a fruit nobody is holding in controlled atmosphere.

Avocado season across every origin

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