The bright red Wase Fuji Korin Apple, nurtured by the clean, delicious air and melted snow flowing from the mountains, looks divine against the greenery. Anthocyanin pigments, which multiply from the light given to the produce by the sun, give good apples their red color. The young, growing babies are green, and the chlorophyll pigment in the leaves is still unclear. Young apples are blue because of the presence of chlorophyll. Come on, grow up and entertain us!
Yamagata Specially Cultivated Agricultural Products refer to agricultural products that are produced according to the standard cultivation method based on the criteria for specially cultivated agricultural products stipulated in the labeling guidelines of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. It is a system to display the guideline when it is recognized as appropriate, and to affix a unique certification sticker for certification. In Yamagata Prefecture’s agriculture, it seems that securing human resources to support the production of various items such as cherries and other fruit trees, vegetables, and paddy rice is a major issue. Therefore, as a new initiative to secure a labor force for agriculture, the Yamagata Agricultural Petit Work initiative, which connects producers and workers on a daily basis through an app, will start in 2021. A service that allows producers and part-time job applicants (job seekers) to recruit and apply for part-time jobs in agriculture in units of several hours to one day through the app. I heard that it will be free of charge until 2022.
A light sensor illuminates each fruit and measures the sugar content. The sugar content is measured by analyzing the amount of light that passes through the inside of the fruit, and only apples with a sugar content above a certain level are selected. In general, it seems that the upper part has a lower sugar content and the lower part has a higher sugar content. It seems that the sugar content is the average value of the whole apple. Place each apple on the tray. At this time, it seems that visible rejects (such as raw scratches and pressed scratches) are also removed. It seems that the achievement rate of “improvement of uneven quality”, which is the purpose of introducing the optical sensor fruit sorting machine, is high. However, there is little use of sorting data in technical guidance, and it seems that the achievement of the introduction purpose of “technical guidance based on objective data”, which aims to improve the proportion of luxury products, is still being raised as an issue.