2023 Volume 17 Issue 3 Pages 131-137
Freshness of agricultural products is very important for health of customers and profit of farmers. In this paper,we deal with vegetable supply chain including production activities such as planting, mowing, fertilization, harvesting and distribution activities such as transportation from farm to distribution center, distribution center to retailer, restaurants,and consumers. There are hundreds of tons waste throughout the supply chain including consumption every year, and it becomes big social problem in Japan. In this paper, aiming to reduce waste of vegetables and other fresh agricultural products, we develop a visualization system of vegetables where those production activities are recorded using sensing technology, and demonstrated to buyers ahead of bidding in the distribution center. Since those production activities were carried out according to GAP (good agricultural practices) standards, buyers may correctly determine quality of the agricultural product ahead of harvest and put there bidding price before harvest. This is an assumption in this paper, which means that agricultural product could be harvested after demand is determined, or the harvesting activities performed for the fixed order, i.e., harvest to order (HTO). Through POC (proof of concept) of the system, we found that the visualization system can contribute to reduction of waste more than 15% same time it can generate GAP report automatically whenever it necessary according to the recorded data.
