HK Horticultural Knowledge srl

HK Horticultural Knowledge srl

Organisation type: 
Stakeholders
Service provider
ICT provider
Country: 
Italy
Short name: 
Perfrutto
Description: 

Problem: Daily fruit growth rate depends on many complex relation between tree and the environment all the growing season long. Revenue is strictly related on the average fruit size, size class distribution and total yield, but fruit growers know these information only after the harvest, when it’s too late to recovery. Furthermore, cooperatives and fruit growers organization need to know quantity and size class distribution of fruit that are going to be stored in their cold rooms.
Solution: the web-page PerFrutto.com processes data collected in the field (fruit size) using Calibit, the digital caliper with datalogger onboard.

Proprietary algorithms were created for the main varieties of apple and pear. Perfrutto provides forecasting information allowing growers to optimize irrigation, fruit thinning and fertilization. Our goal is the success of the growers making them able to produce the best possible fruit quantity and sizes. PerFrutto maximizes crop yield (+20% = +4K€/ha) and optimizes the production. Fruit can be used as natural active drivers for irrigation management. Early information about fruit production (size and quantity) is fundamental and strategical for commercial staff.

International: 
No