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Fruit Sorting Automation: Paying You Back In Many Ways
If we had to pick just one watershed moment in the history of humankind, we’d say it’s agriculture. The ability to grow food in sufficient quantities to sustain the population was a profound moment.
Topics: AI quality processes apples fruits sorting citrus orange pomegranate
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Fresh Should Be Packed (& Delivered) Fresh. Always!
Customers don’t expect safe, healthy, tasty, and fresh food. They demand it.
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AI-based Tech Creates A Nirvana of Fast & Better DarkStore Operations
2020 was about adapting to the changing needs and switching to a grocery retail model that could meet the demands of surging online orders. In any other industry, the surge would have been a cause to celebrate. But not in grocery.
Topics: technology quality processes online grocery delivery
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Energizing the Sales of Apples
You move more apples when they are big, of the right color and free of defects. Correctly classify the size and color and you'll have a stellar season. But how do you achieve this? By investing in technology that quickly and efficiently assesses size, color, shape, and defects digitally.
Topics: digitizing quality apple
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Key Apple Market Trends In The US
A look at the US apple market trends for growers and the pandemic’s impact on EXIM.
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Mastering The Last-Mile Delivery Conundrum Of Online Grocery
Shopping for fresh fruits and vegetables is a tactile experience. We want to touch, smell and feel the produce before we add it to the cart. Or at least it was.
Topics: technology digitizing quality AI online grocery delivery
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5 Ways To Make This Apple Harvest Season Stellar
Apples are big sellers in the US. With over 100 cultivars, from Honeycrisp to Golden Delicious, there is no dearth of variety in terms of size, shape, taste, or color. But irrespective of which apple variety is grown, packed, or traded, supplying consistent quality is imperative. With that in mind, here’s how to make the most of this apple harvest season.
Topics: AI quality processes apple
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A New Incarnation Of Fresh Produce Quality Processes
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change...”
Topics: Food technology fresh produce digitizing quality
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Time To Stop Disguising Poor Produce Quality Practices
An apple a day keeps the doctor away. But what does it take to get people to buy that apple? Top-notch quality.
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Why Excel Is Bad To Monitor Fresh Produce Quality?
Data is invaluable. For every business. Yet, fresh produce companies use outdated tools to store, communicate, and visualize that data.
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Communication Is Visual In Fresh Produce Quality. Why Aren’t You?
“The fruits are decayed? They were good when we shipped out.”
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Tackling the Problems in Fresh Produce that Surface from Labour Scarcity
It’s a speck on the edge of our consciousness. We know that there is a dire need for solutions that unravel the web of issues that accompany labour shortage. Yet, we are hesitant to adopt them, even when the solution is nothing out of the ordinary – just an app or machine that digitizes quality processes.
Topics: English Food
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The Benefits You Reap by Digitising Fresh Produce Quality Control
Australia is rich in fresh produce but short on labour . This labour scarcity has been escalated due to the pandemic, resulting in less fruit and vegetables harvested.
Topics: English Food
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You’re Losing A Lot By Not Digitizing Fresh Produce Quality
The approach to quality control hasn’t changed. The entire fresh produce supply chain performs it in the same way as it did several decades back.
Topics: English Food
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How does AI / Automation Reduce Post- Harvest Losses?
Automated sorting machines reduce post-harvest loss during grading – an issue that has plagued the fresh produce sector for decades.
Topics: English Food
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Cutting down Food loss and Food Waste – 3 Retail Stories.
Over a third of all food produced in the world goes to waste. The food loss doesn’t merely inflate prices. It flippantly uses up natural resources – resources we are hard-pressed for already.
Topics: English Food
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Before We Reduce Food Loss, We Need to Measure It
It is when we know what, and how much is thrown away can we begin to tackle the food loss problem.
Loss and waste are rife across the food supply chain. And over the past few weeks, as part of our #FLWDay initiative, we’ve spoken abundantly about why it matters, and how to curb it. We now wanted to know if businesses were measuring food loss. And if they were, was it reported?
Topics: English Food
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Who will win the fresh produce distribution race in India?
Fresh produce distribution companies are dominating India’s start-up scene and the race is on to find the path to success, with a range of models battling it out.
Topics: English Food
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How are Large Corporates cutting down Food Loss and Food Waste?
We’re back with another post geared towards #FLWDay. For those of you who landed straight here, a quick recap.
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E-grocery: a change in status quo
Online grocery has seen a boom in sales as a result of Covid-19. Now, e-tailers are seeking solutions to the challenge of meeting quality expectations on fresh produce
Topics: English Food
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Interview with Vivek Dhume, head of North America fruits and vegetable business at Future Group
Covid-19 has wreaked havoc on businesses around the world. That’s more than obvious. How are fresh produce businesses coping? We spoke to Vivek Dhume, head of the North America fruit and vegetable business at Future Group , to gain his perspectives on the US situation. This interview was conducted in March 2020.
Topics: English Food
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8 Ways Digital can help Food & Agriculture industry in times of corona
Corona Virus has taken the world by storm. Every business has been disrupted significantly, food and agriculture being one of them. Having said that, in these turbulent times, digital innovation offers ways to continue operations with minimal (or even zero) human contact. Here are some of them:
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4 steps to control food quality
Raj was a worried man. He is part of an agritech startup, aggregating food supply from farmers to retail stores. He just got off the phone with a customer who was upset about the quality received. When Raj discussed it with his DC (Distribution Center) personnel, he gets a conflicting view that the dispatch quality was really good. Raj sees an inconsistency as just the previous day he was resolving a conflict between his CC (Collection Center) and DC teams on dispatch quality vs. arrival quality. Each stakeholder had his own understanding of quality, and there was no consistent capturing or reporting of data.
