Challenges

The meteorological variability generated by climate change causes uncertainty in the evolution of crops that entails added difficulty in planning harvests, and particularly in fruit growing. On the other hand, the increase in the variability of the volume and quality of peach and cherry production means that the investment of resources and dedication of the technical teams to plan the harvests is increasingly higher and not more accurate. The technical teams use different techniques (sampling, ripening controls, gauging, etc.) to determine in advance the aforementioned variables of volume and optimal harvest time, but the reliability of the results that these systems provide has a lot of potential for improvement. The large number of variables that affect both the quality and quantity of production (meteorology, characteristics of the plots, productive areas, etc.) makes it very complex to obtain reliable predictions with traditional approaches, and therefore, That today there is still no successful methodology to be able to know in advance the two main variables that affect harvest planning in peach and cherry cultivation: volume and harvest maturation.

Therefore, improving the reliability of harvest planning becomes a critical factor for the competitiveness of fruit producing companies. Obtaining reliable harvest planning allows you to gain a strategic position when it comes to: