Photoelectric Color Sorting of Vine-Ripened Tomatoes

Jerome J. Gaffney and Otto L. Jahn

No 313619, Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpts from the report: Increasing the level of shipments of vine-ripened tomatoes seems to depend on developing a marketing system that would insure a tomato of uniform quality, particularly with respect to color and maturity. The marketing of vine-ripened tomatoes has been improved with respect to color and maturity, but more improvement is necessary. Because of the high labor costs of color sorting tomatoes, and the importance of obtaining uniformity and consistency of color, research was conducted on photoelectric color sorting of vine-ripened tomatoes. The principal objectives of this research were (1) to test the use of photoelectric equipment for sorting vine-ripened tomatoes for color; (2) to conduct ripening studies of vine-ripened tomatoes sorted into color groups by photoelectric equipment; and (3) to study various factors associated with the commercial use of photoelectric equipment for this purpose.

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital; Marketing; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22
Date: 1970-12
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/313619/files/mrr868.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uamsmr:313619

DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.313619

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Marketing Research Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by AgEcon Search ().