Robot-powered blueberry packing in the Decai Agriculture packhouse

Customer story

Decai Agriculture

Blueberry grower & packer in Sichuan, China

From planting, post-harvest sorting to back-end sales, Decai has constructed a whole set of high-standard and high-configuration models for the blueberry industry: modernized facility blueberry plantation, TOMRA blueberry sorting and packing line, and front-end and back-end automation projects, such as automatic pre-cooling room and automatic packing and palletizing, etc.
Decai created brand differentiation with high-quality blueberries and seasonal, staggered market strategy. Since its establishment, Decai has been steadily taking the market and has grown into a pioneer and automation leader in the blueberry industry with its advanced concepts and technologies.

We are highly impressed by TOMRA's AI sorting and packing solutions. They're very accurate, very fast, and very efficient. TOMRA's LUCAi™ helps us classify and grade blueberries by color, size, softness, and other defects. With TOMRA's equipment, we can now accurately sort out soft berries.

Wu Jun General manager, Decai Agriculture

With TOMRA, Decai built a 'blueberry dream land and dream factory'

Using advanced technology and management concepts to be far ahead in the industry Decai's goal. At present, Decai has built more than 2,000 acres of soilless blueberry gardens, adopting modern agricultural management technology, realizing the mechanized and intelligent management of temperature control, light control, water fertilization and irrigation, and becoming the first large-scale soilless blueberry planting demonstration area in Sichuan.


The TOMRA blueberry sorting line covers feeding, pre-sorting, AI sorting and grading, and weighing and packaging, which is also the core of Decai's fresh fruit intelligent factory. This line, together with the pre-cooling warehouse and front and back-end automation engineering designed and built by Decai independently, forms the most highly automated production line in China and the world.

This whole set of highly automated equipment is a work of art composed of cutting-edge technology and is also a powerful weapon for enterprises who really want to do a good job in blueberry business. The 3,000 square meters of intelligent factory and more than 2,000 acres of soil-less cultivation garden of Decai have attracted a steady stream of people who call it the "dream garden" and "dream factory" of blueberries.  

LUCAi™ helps Decai keep pace with its ambitious growth plan

 

Before the introduction of TOMRA blueberry intelligent sorting and packaging line, Decai had experienced manual sorting and semi-automatic sorting stage. However, the output and precision of their sorting were far from keeping pace with the development of Dechai. Especially in recent years, the blueberry industry has entered an explosive period, and if you want to occupy a place in the capital flocking to the situation, the quality and production must not be compromise.
 
The LUCAi™ system, which has reaped countless favorable comments, is an artificial intelligence engine independently developed by TOMRA. It uses more than 250,000 data pictures to drive the database, transforming the massive data into precise quality percentages, which can accurately identify all kinds of blueberry defects and truly realize the quality defined by customers.

Explore Decai Agriculture's 'dream blueberry factory'

We plan to build 5,000 acres of blueberry plantations by 2026. With large-scale planting, the production is very large, and the long cycle of manual screening has no way to guarantee the quality of the blueberries. TOMRA's sorting equipment can help us greatly shorten the cycle from picking to shipment.

Zhong Hongtian Head of Decai Plantation

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