Tropical fruit shippers Seasons Farm Fresh and AMR Agro recently completed tests of Hazel Technologies products on their products during shipping and have reported successful results.
The companies plan to integrate Hazel Tech shelf-life extending products into their mango, tropical avocado, rambutan and soursop shipments.
“In testing, we have seen Hazel Tech extend the shelf life of tropical fruits like soursop, an extremely perishable item, by 45%,” Gabe Bernal, general manager of Miami-based Seasons Farm Fresh, which will begin its sixth season of importing rambutan from Honduras in October, said in a news release.
Dominican Republic-based AMR Agro distributes tropical fruit globally.
“We observed that Hazel helps ensure consistent, quality arrivals for our growing tropical avocado freight programs, with 10 days of additional shelf life,” Raul Reyes, co-owner, said in the release.
Hazel Technologies CEO Aidan Mouat noted that the company was founded in 2015, the same year the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a mandate to reduce food waste by half by 2030 to meet Paris Climate Accord goals.
“Given the high projected growth of tropical fruit production cultivated to feed a growing global population in the next decade, developing more waste-reducing technologies for the tropical fruit supply chain is a top priority,” Mouat said in the release
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