A peach, "walking" on a mechanical assembly line ranging from 15 to 30 meters, completed the test in less than 2 minutes and entered the customized box. In particular, the diseased peaches that cannot be seen by humans are accurately detected and automatically disposed of in this process. On June 21, at the first ceremony of Yangshan Peach, the first intelligent high-end peach sorting equipment was launched, and the sorting and packing link began digital transformation. "The 'machine substitution' of the peach industry chain helps to improve the modernization level of the agricultural industry while saving manpower and material resources." The relevant person in charge of Yangshan Town, Huishan District, Wuxi City, said.
Walking into the "workshop", covering an area of about 30 square meters, a single-channel high-performance fruit sorting machine, one by one, peaches that have just come from the peach orchard are "lying" on small tires and experiencing the "roller coaster" like picking process. According to the technical staff, this machine sorts 3 peaches of different weight grades, each grade is divided into 4 grades according to sweetness, and 183 peaches can be sorted and packed into boxes per minute, and workers only need to put peaches on the line and move the boxes off the line. The most powerful thing about this "smart sorter" is the 3D visual function, which can see through the "heart" and "catch" the "problem peach" with mold heart disease down the assembly line. In the manual sorting workshop on the first floor, dozens of workers are carrying out manual sorting, "starting from 5 a.m., it takes more than ten hours a day." Compared with the smart equipment upstairs, the labor efficiency difference is significant, "the key is to check the sick peach this link, the machine's ability is much higher than that of labor." ”
The digital transformation of Yangshan Peach is being accelerated in many links. Sun Jianqin, who won the first "2021 Top Ten Peach Growers" in Yangshan Town on the same day, is the leader of peach farming machinery. From Luoshe to Yangshan, he planted more than 140 acres of peach fields and implanted advanced peach cultivation technology into his peach forests. "This year's peach production is about 30% higher than last year's, but it is a little smaller because there is less rain." He said that his 800,000 peaches have been basically ordered, in order to pick peaches to save time and effort, he has opened up roads in peach fields, so that small trucks and lift pickers can freely enter and exit, more than 100 meters long field roads, compared to all manual picking and moving, much less labor.
Digital development also provides a smart path for the improvement of the whole industrial chain of Yangshan peach. Yangshan encourages and guides all peach farmers to "touch the net", sell peaches with the help of e-commerce platforms such as JD.com, Tmall, and Taobao, develop online trading WeChat mini programs and APP to promote sales, and live streaming with goods has become a new highlight this year. "The proportion of online sales has increased by about 20% this year."
Although there is an impact of the epidemic this year, the city's multi-party coordination, the sales link of peaches began to flow smoothly. Yangshan Peach was originally the main battlefield of Beijing and Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, and this year Yangshan sent more than 500 brokers to Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu, Wuhan and other places to open up new sales channels and connect with large local supermarkets. At the same time, group buying in Shanghai and other places has also become a new growth point for offline sales. "At present, all of them adopt the method of double closed-loop distribution of point-to-point cold chain vehicles, and the driver does not leave the cab all the way, transports the peaches to distribution centers across the country, and the local delivery staff directly delivers them to the hands of customers." The relevant person in charge of Yangshan said. On the same day, Wuxi Customs also assisted in the export of a batch of peaches overseas. (Qiu Peixing)