Special color sorting machine developed successfully

Manual picking of dried mandarins that have been used for hundreds of years will be replaced by machinery. Recently, the reporter learned from the Science and Technology Department of the Autonomous Region that a sophisticated picking machine that uses the principle of optoelectronics to analyze the color of the outer surface by computer and distinguish the quality of the dried fruit is not put into use. The use of this machine not only removes impurities from the dried fruit, but also accurately sorts the mold, black fruit, oil fruit, and green fruit that affect the quality of the product. The industry believes that the successful development of the special color sorter will completely end the “tear-saw” of picking and picking up the labor force.

With the expansion of the planting area and the large increase in production in our area, the selection of dried fruits has consumed a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources, and the manual selection criteria are difficult to control, which has become a major constraint to the circulation of cockroaches. According to preliminary investigations, only in Zhongning County, about 10,000 people are engaged in picking and picking every day during the peak period of the listing, and there are nearly 3,000 people in the off-season. There is often a struggle for labor between manual picking and picking. After more than two years of efforts by Tianjin Optoelectronics Application Technology Research Institute and Zhongning County Win-win SME Technology Service Center, the first dedicated color sorting machine was put into use not long ago. After testing, the machine can pick 枸杞10 tons to 15 tons per working day. The quality of the picking is stable and reliable. The daily workload of each machine is equivalent to the picking quantity of 120 people. The daily picking cost is 0.13 yuan/kg, which is lower than the manual picking 0.20. Yuan/kg level.