Aongatete Coolstores Ltd has been working with Zespri to demonstrate the opportunities for growers, packhouses and marketers which may be available from improved product tracking. The research programme records where bins are filled within orchard blocks and links fruit quality data from the grading system with that location. Last year the concept was proven with a few orchards while this year a big effort has gone in to see how it might work on a wider scale. For example a digital system has been developed to track the 4000 bins used for picking.
