CASE STUDIES

The Challenge Despite Israel’s long-standing experience in cultivating prickly pear, practical postharvest knowledge remains limited and largely inaccessible.

The Challenge To develop an end-to-end export protocol and tailor the required tools and infrastructure for shipping natural, fresh lychee from Vietnam to top-tier North American retailers — without sulfur treatment, while meeting strict market standards.

Major players in the fresh produce industry increasingly realize their responsibility to engage in more sustainable practices, especially when developing and choosing packaging for their products.

Persimmon consumption in Europe and North America is on a rise and the demand for year-round supply drives growers and shippers to seek ways to bridge the supply gaps between Northern and Southern Hemisphere crops.

"This one tastes spoiled" said my wife when she had a lychee that I'd peeled for her. "Not like the others I had before." I laughed. It wasn't spoiled but it had been treated with sulfur and acid as dictated by the prevailing postharvest protocol for lychee. "All the others that you ate before were not treated with chemicals, but instead packed in special MA packaging for lychee."