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The difference in the registration of hard & soft fruit

Agromanager gets the administration of your crop on point in no time. After all, as you probably read in our previous blog, our Time Registration makes it easy for you to accurately track your pickers’ hours, as well as how much they picked. But did you also know that there is a tangible difference between how hard and soft fruits are ideally registered?

With hard fruit, it is not uncommon for us to aim to pick a hefty stock of approx. 400 kilos of apples or pears. We take our picking bag and soon there are three or four of us picking together. Fast and efficient, yes, but in the end, we don’t know exactly who picked what. Fortunately, because we work with an average per employee, this is not a strict necessity.

However, things change when we talk about soft fruits, such as raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, etc. and that’s where Agromanager really comes into its own. Indeed, with our harvesting application, we can measure down to the kilo how much our employees pick per hour. So there is less of this crop, which is obviously a lot more expensive, picked per hour than hard fruit.

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Moreover, an additional factor comes into play with soft fruit: if the fruit is gripped with too much force, it will be bruised and the value of your crop will drop visibly. So Agromanager’s online administration also makes it possible to know who has picked how, and if they can be allowed to return to the field next season. So not only the speed, but also the quality of your pick is considered!

Take strawberries, for example; each picker gets a roll of stickers and applies one sticker to each tray they have filled personally. These trays are collected on a pallet and scanned by an employee. The data is then entered into your account, so you will know who picked which trays in no time. This makes it easy to carry out individual quality checks in cases where you were previously more likely to work with crates!

It doesn’t matter if it’s hard or soft fruit: Agromanager’s applications add value to any fruit cultivation business in need of a professional and profitable organisation. Are you interested in a customised digital system fully customised to your needs? Then don’t hesitate to contact us for an appointment at no obligation.

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