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Kelowna farm first in Canada to use advanced pear sorting machine

Days Century Growers aims to make pear farming more efficient with advanced technology from Holland.
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Kelowna香蕉视频直播檚 own Days Century Growers is making Canadian history as the first to use a special kind of fruiting machine to sort and haul its thousands of pounds of pears.

The family-owned farm moves as many as three million pears each season, explained operations manager Erin Day.

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The optical fruiting machinery, designed and manufactured in Holland, has two important functions: It dumps bins carrying thousands of pounds of pears into a wet dump and then also gently handles and sorts the fruit.

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The machine will help decrease labor and the need for forklifting, the farm owners said.

香蕉视频直播淎nother really cool aspect is the camera housing. The machine takes 60 pictures of each pear as it rolls by,香蕉视频直播 Day said. This feature allows for the pears to be sorted properly into different size and quality sections.

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