Banana packing app software
Banana packing app software for rapid washing, treatment, sorting, and packing of bananas for domestic and export. Full banana inventory storage, traceability, quality control, sales, shipping, shipping container management, export management. Less banana waste, faster banana packing, better profits.
Banana Packing App for better banana exports
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Packhouse practices for bananas
Banana packhouse practices include the activities from the moment the bananas arrive at the collection station or packhouse to the moment of transport to the intended market. Farmsoft helps manage the banana packing process from the moment of inventory delivery through to post sales analysis and traceability.
Dividing the bunch into smaller units, washing, sorting and packing are among the main activities where loss can occur in the banana supply chain.
Good banana packaging is a requirement to maintain a good quality of banana throughout the rest of the supply chain. This also applies to good temperature management. Proper cleaning and sanitizing of building and equipment is part of good packhouse practices.
Well regulated and controlled banana packing processes are essential for both domestic and export packers of bananas.
The activities at a banana packhouse must be well regulated and controlled.
The process of washing, cutting, grading and packing must be well supervised, with tallies entered into Farmsoft every time the state of the bananas changes, this ensure maximum accountability of inventory and no shrinkage goes unnoticed.
Banana skin is vulnerable to damage. Always handle bananas carefully. Packing in cardboard boxes with bags is done in such a way that it provides a high humidity and a good protection against abrasion damage during transport; once the bananas are packed, Farmsoft generates pallet, crate, and consumer unit labels that are tailored to your businesses requirements.
Bananas should be rapidly cooled after harvest. However, bananas should not be stored below their critical temperature, as chilling injury may then occur which would result in risks on discolorations of skin, poor flavor and increased susceptibility to decay.
Banana packing app manages food safety, audits, recalls
Having the ability to rapidly produce a recall or mock recall, or audit data for your packed bananas is essential.
The banana is one of the oldest cultivated plants in the world. Botanically, it is a berry, belonging to the Musaceae family. Originally from tropical Asia, it has become widespread throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the earth.
The banana plant develops a false trunk (pseudostem) composed of leaf sheaths, from the center of which there emerges the apical flower and fruit spike.
Bananas, which are very popular because of their high carbohydrate content (mainly as glucose) and because of their aromatic taste, are harvested all year round.
The banana spike is known as a bunch. A bunch is composed of a series of hands. The individual fruits are called fingers.
Bananas are divided into the following varieties:
Dessert bananas, which are suitable for eating fresh (fleshy, sweet, flavorsome)
Baby bananas, a miniature variety of dessert banana, which has recently enjoyed ever greater popularity
Cooking bananas, which have to be cooked before eating (mealy, starchy, plantains)
Fiber bananas, which are used for obtaining fibers (abaca, Manila hemp).
Banana packing app manages supplier food quality and traceability
The banana is one of the most important perishable commodities in international trade. Cargoes of bananas are carried either in the holds of reefer (refrigerated) vessels or in refrigerated shipping containers. A voyage may take a few days or several weeks from the loading to the discharging port. Over the past decade, the banana trade has been fast-moving to almost full containerization. The international banana trade is based on the harvesting and transportation of hard, green, unripe fruit, which is later ripened in the country of consumption. The lowest temperature at which bananas may safely be shipped is in the region of 13.3°C, which is optimal for extending postharvest life. At temperatures below this critical value, there is a risk of chilling injury. In contrast to most other fruit commodities, bananas are usually presented to the carrier at ambient temperature. It is the task of the ship or container to cool them safely to the carriage.
Banana Packing App for reduced food & fresh produce waste
Packing bananas with Farmsoft is a rapid and easily managed process.
Banding is the ecologically sensible packaging for bananas. A band holds bananas together and is an information carrier for traceability and consumer purposes. There is also a solution for shelf life.
There are many ways to pack bananas. In exceptional cases, it may also make sense to pack bananas in plastic and apply the Farmsoft traceability label to the plastic cover.
The most common reasons for this are traceability, the distinction between organically and conventionally grown bananas or the longer shelf life and thus less food waste. Bands made of paper or recyclable film are usually still the better option.
Banding can not only be printed in advance from Farmsoft, and thus take over the branding, but also be dynamically blended with traceability codes and data of all kinds and information about the producer during manual or fully automatic banding. Traceability is thus guaranteed.
Differently printed bands identify packed bananas as organically or conventionally grown; Farmsoft traceability labels are tailored to each clients specifications.
The ripening process of bananas can be slowed down if the stalk is wrapped airtight with cling film or waxed at the stalk. The film prevents the natural ripening gas ethylene from reaching other parts of the fruit and causing it to ripen too quickly. Farmsoft manages the live ripening status of bananas in storage, ensuring zero banana waste, and the correct bananas are packed at the correct time.