The jimador (or agave farmer) is responsible for harvesting the agave once it has reached maturity. At a glance, a good jimador knows which agaves are ripe and ready for harvesting. He can also identify those that are overripe, diseased and so forth. An experience jimador can harvest over a ton of agave hearts each day.
An experience jimador says:
“To be good at this job, you need to have a sense of how to cut the leaves off the heart. It should be done with a single blow, and at just the right spot, because if you’re inexperienced and cut the leaf off to high, then you need two more blows to get it right”
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