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Planting Stage 1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Picking Unloading into Packing Shed Grading Machine Packing Receivals Area Processing Room Processing Room Processing Room Drying Room Holding Coldroom Packing Room Fruit is hand planted to reduce any stresses on the plant thus enabling it to fully develop and produce high quantity fruit. Nutrition and water requirements are regularly monitored to ensure responsible use of these resources whilst achieving optimal yields and quality. Every activity performed in the production process is analysed to enable the appropriate management is undertaken thus ensuring sustainable production. Some of the important processes which directly determine the quality and yield are performed manually. Tomatoes are hand picked in a mature state and ripened evenly in a controlled atmosphere to ensure optimum quality. Tomatoes are unloaded and washed. Tomatoes are hand sorted for defects and waste, which is removed. Tomatoes are graded for colour and size by an extremely precise computer grading machine. Tomatoes are placed into correct size bins. The tomatoes are received from the farm and stored in the receival coldroom. All product is inspected and weighed before being tipped for processing. The tomatoes are washed and all waste is removed. The trolleys are cleaned thoroughly, the trays are put through a traywash system and travel through to the processing room. The tomatoes are sliced into equal segments. Staff ensure that all slices are placed on their backs. The full trays are loaded into trolleys, which are then stored in a coldroom awaiting loading into the driers. The trolleys are loaded into the driers and monitored for a specified period. The finished product is inspected and then placed into a holding coldroom prior to unloading. The product is packaged in various ways depending on customer specifications.
Planting Fruit is hand planted to reduce any stresses on the plant thus enabling it to fully develop and produce high quantity fruit. |
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Last modified: 27/02/05 |
