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Cambodian mangoes are officially approved for export to China
Cambodian mangoes are officially approved for export to China, and prices remain low this year. There are 37 registered orchards for exporting Cambodian mangoes to China and five packaging factories that have been approved by the Chinese side. First Industry is a professional manufacturer of fruit and vegetable sorting and packaging machines. However, the most exported products are orange sorting and packing line, automatic lemon packing line, tomato cleaning and grading packing line, and mango grading packaging is still in the research and development stage. However, based on First Industry's previous rate of development, the automatic mango sorting and packaging line will soon be on the market.
Sweet potato grading machine sold to Nigeria was shipped
Recently First Industry has customized an all-stainless sweet potato cleaning and grading line for Nigerian customer. This sweet potato washing drying grading line is composed of 5 parts, namely the bubble cleaning tank, the brush spraying and cleaning, 4 sets of dryers, and the extended fruit picking table is convenient for manual picking out of the bad sweet potatoes. There is also a small feed trough next to the fruit picking table for the convenience of filling unqualified sweet potatoes. The last part is a roller grader with 5 outlets. After testing, this sweet potato washing line was fully operational, and First Industry immediately arranged the delivery for the customer.
New Zealand Envy apples are shipped to China and Southeast Asia
T&G Global announced that it will fully support its high-end Apple Envy (Envy) export plan. Five cargo ships carrying a total of 28,000 boxes (518 tons) have departed from Napier Port in New Zealand for the Chinese and Southeast Asian markets.
Chile overtook the United States to become Asia's largest fruit importer
So far, Asia has replaced the United States as the main export destination of Chilean fresh fruits. Chile shipped more than 613,961 tons of fruit to the Asian market, an increase of 15.28% over the previous export season. The growth mainly comes from the export of cherries, and China is the main market for Chilean cherries.
South African citrus faces a shortage of containers
Recently, the South African Citrus Growers Association (CGA) warned that from April to October, South African citrus export companies will face export difficulties and the demand for refrigerated containers will be high.
Vietnam's mango aims to export 650 million U.S. dollars in 2030
According to the Viet Nam Daily News, the mango plantation area in Vietnam has reached 87,000 hectares, of which the Jiulong River Delta accounts for 48%. The Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Vietnam has set that by 2030, the national mango plantation area will reach 140,000 hectares, the output will reach 1.5 million tons, the export value will reach 650 million U.S. dollars, and 70% of the fresh-keeping processing plant technology will reach the goal of advanced technology.
Beetroot can also be sorted with a roller classifier
The shape of beetroot varies, but the oblate shape is the best. According to the shape of beetroot, it is very suitable for size sorting with a roller grader. The roller classifier separates the beetroot by changing the size of the spacing between the rollers during operation.
New Zealand sweet persimmon plans to export 12,500 tons this season
Sweet persimmons can also be sorted by a weight classifier. If you want to sort less than seven grades, it is best to choose a disc sweet persimmon grader, if you want to sort 7 to 12 grades, you can choose a linear electronic fruit weight grader. Both of these two kinds of fruit sorting can sort out the size of the fruit quickly and accurately without damaging the fruit.