Pegasus Agrifood Coop and the Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) recently embarked on a visit to experimental fields in Greece, where they engaged with local farmers and collected soil samples for subsequent laboratory analysis. These experimental pl ...
CrackSense Newsletter Issue #1
CrackSense is a 4-year Horizon Europe project aimed at addressing the problem of fruit cracking in citrus, pomegranate, table grapes and sweet cherries by developing and upscaling sensing tools that will provide real-time sensor data through experiments a ...
Spotlight on: Science Perspective on Digital Agriculture in Fruit Production
EXPERT IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Nenad Magazin, PhD, is a university professor and expert in the field of fruit production and fruit postharvest at the Faculty of Agriculture in Novi Sad, Serbia. His position as a Vice dean for the development and cooperation wi ...
Earth, Wind and Water: Which Factors Contribute to Fruit Cracking?
Fruit cracking affects numerous meaty fruits, such as sweet cherry, plum, apricot, apple, litchi, pomegranate, citrus, banana, avocado, grape, persimmon, peach, tomato, and pistachio. Besides affecting different fruit species, this peel disorder presents ...
Behind the Fruit Cracking: Time for a Change
Fruit production today is facing numerous challenges worldwide. Among the most concerning and widespread production issues faced by farmers is fruit cracking. Splitting and cracking are physiological phenomena, which occur under specific conditions, affec ...
Cracking the Data to Combat Fruit Cracking
CrackSense project receives 7,5 million euros to utilise sensing and data technologies to enhance fruit quality Bringing together 14 partners across 7 European countries, the new EU project CrackSense will address the fruit cracking challenge in Europe, ...