Tomatoes are an essential crop for small-scale farmers in Nebbi Municipality, contributing to family income and food security. Despite its global popularity and nutritional importance, the tomato value chain experiences significant post-harvest losses in Nebbi Municipality. This study focuses on the …

The increasing trend of sustainable and on-the-go healthy food products results in consumers demanding more ‘natural and organic ingredients. Not only do consumers want healthier options, but there is also an increasing concern on part of governments and legislation makers on reducing salt levels in …

Blockchain technology has been rising in popularity since its introduction in 2008. Especially in the food industry and in food supply chains, blockchain could provide a guaranteed safe and reliable traceability system with as few errors as possible. This paper is written for everyone interested in blockchain …

Objective: To investigate the effects of providing free fruit and snack vegetables at a university on students’ fruit intake, snack vegetable intake and total vegetable intake. Design: Free fruit and raw snack vegetables (e.g. bite-sized tomatoes) were provided in a stand in the form of a miniature wooden …

Control of plant growth is an important aspect of crop productivity and yield in agriculture. Overexpression of the At CHR12/ 23 genes in Arabidopsis thaliana reduced growth habit without other morphological changes. These two genes encode Snf2 chromatin remodelling ATPases. Here, we translate this approach …

This report is about implementing a pipeline in C++ in order to make it possible to perform online hyperspectral analysis of tomatoes. The project is performed by a mechatronic student as a graduation internship. The report will give insight in the design and realization of software which is capable …

Tomato is one of the most popular vegetables all over the world and the production was 145 million tonnes in 2011. In Taiwan and The Netherlands, tomato also became an important vegetable nowadays. In both countries, the farmer cooperatives are the way to help farmers accessing markets. However, Taiwanese …

The Almeria’s tomato value chain is currently reducing its competitiveness due to high production and processing costs as well as the maintenance of selling prices and the increase of competitors. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to assess the Almeria’s tomato value chain in order to identify …