抄録
Sorting, preparing, and packing for strawberry shipment take farmers a lot of time. Therefore, a communal strawberry sorting system at JA was developed and put into practical application. It consists of weight measuring units, a non-destructive quality analyzer which uses near infrared rays to measure sugar and acid content in strawberry, pans carrying strawberries, and conveyors transporting them. All strawberries can be sorted with an efficiency of 3 strawberries per second. By focusing on the distribution of the sugar content in each strawberry, the analyzer predicted with a higher level of accuracy than the SEP 0.5brix% for sugar content and SEP 0.2wt% for acid content. The sorting system is expected to provide farmers with data that will help them to increase the areas that is cultivated by sharing labor more efficiently.
