In the citrus sorting workshop of the special agricultural products commercialization processing center of Rongke Logistics Park in Wushan County, a full citrus batch of citrus through digital and automated equipment and facilities efficiently completes a series of processes such as cleaning, sterilization, sorting, quality control, packaging, packing, preservation, ordering, and transportation, and then packs and ships them to all parts of the country.
We use a multi-functional four-lane sorter for fruits and vegetables, which can identify the size and weight of each citrus and realize all automation, and can also grade the sugar content and defects of the fruit to select the best quality fruit. Zou Lin, head of the Rongke ** chain workshop, said.
Workers are sorting citrus into bags.
It is reported that the sorting machine has a visual recognition system, a load cell, and an internal quality scanner, which can take pictures of citrus, accurately sort its surface color and shape, identify defective fruits, measure weight in real time, accurately detect the internal quality of citrus, and non-destructively detect sugar content. After intelligent screening by the machine, the fruits are transferred to the packaging line in turn according to the grading standards. After the sorting is completed, it can be sent to supermarkets, e-commerce channels, fruit wholesale markets, etc. according to the needs of merchants, so as to quickly realize the graded sales of fruits and improve production efficiency.
In previous years, when citrus was on the market, farmers carried out manual sorting based on experience, which was easy to cause uneven citrus quality, and skilled farmers could only sort out fifty or sixty catties of citrus every hour at the earliest. After the sorter is put into use, the daily production capacity can reach more than 200 tons, and the efficiency is 20 times higher than that of manual sorting. Zou Lin said that as of January 23, about 4,000 tons of citrus were sent to all parts of the country, of which more than 1,500 tons were sold online and more than 2,500 tons were sold offline.
In recent years, 200,000 acres of citrus have been planted in Wushan County, and the fruit-bearing area has reached 1350,000 acres, with an estimated output of 120,000 tons this year. In order to promote citrus sales, Wushan County guides citrus production enterprises and cooperatives to implement the ecological planting model, intelligently upgrade the production equipment, refine the sugar content and size of citrus fresh fruits, and subdivide the sales market at the same time, and adopt diversified sales methods such as "direct sales, exports, joint sales of merchants, agricultural supermarket docking, agricultural business docking, e-commerce, refrigerated peak shifting, processing and transformation", and strive to improve sales and achieve the goal of increasing farmers' income. (Reporter Zeng Lu, He Shanchun, intern Deng Houshuang, text).
*: Wushan Daily.