greenchainge project
DESCRIPTION
Wageningen UR Food & Biobased Research, Plant breeders, growers and wholesalers, import and export, are working together in the GreenCHAINge project to further increase the sustainability of transport An important aspect is the switch from air freight to sea freight and from road transport to rail transport. Energy savings at international floriculture transport is an essential objective in this project. The CO2 reduction in the various commercial routes will be described in the subprojectsTRANSCRIPT
GreenCHAINge
Sustainable chain for ornamentals
Eelke Westra
Wageningen approach
Initial Quality
Chain conditions
Quality development Predicted
Quality
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GreenCHAINGe workpackages (WP)
WP1: Import Cut Flowers
●Kenian Cut-Roses imported by sea freight
WP2: Export Potted Plants
●Dutch grown Anthurium, Phalaenopsis and Cyclamen exported by train or barge
WP3: Export Cut Flowers
●Dutch grown Gerbera and Cut-Anthurium exported by truck (long distance), train or barge
GreenCHAINge Consortium
Private
Horticultural Board
Flower trade (branche organisation)
Greenhouse production (branche organisation)
Plant breeding (branche organisation)
Knowledge institute:
Wageningen UR
Quality in Chains
INFORMATION
Grower transport Trade/Auction transport Retail
DATA DATA DATA
Variety perdicts vase life
• Which varieties are this?
• Why different vase lifes?
Cult
ivar
Vaselife [days]
Influence Transport Temperature
different cv, same condition
Temp. variatie
continu 5°C
continu 11°C
continu 8°C
1x conden-satie
Product
LogisticsTechnology
Multi-disciplinary approach
CO2
Postharvest quality and logistics
Qualit
y
Fenotype
Genotype
Growing conditions Postharvest &
Logisitics
Quality Monitoring
Learn of daily operation:
Monitor growing conditions
Know variety
Measure chain conditions
Log quality measurements
Create dataset and analyse
Summary (1)
Quality of fresh produce needs total chain approach
●Transparency needed between every link
Appropriate technology can then be selected to maintain quality
●A single factor approach only leads to sub-optimal results
Summary (2)
Quality starts with the intrinsic potential of a plant (genes)
The postharvest chain can only slow down quality loss, the chain is not a hospital
Understanding and knowing quality loss gives many possibilities
●Low hanging fruit: start with chain monitoring
Information
Contact
Food & Biobased Research
PO Box 17
6700 AA Wageningen
+31 317 480208
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