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Sensors for Summerfruit project off to a strong start after first production season A project aimed at understanding and measuring fruit quality in the Australian stone fruit industry has undertaken its first main production season of research. It is being led by Agriculture Victoria and Research Scientist Dr Mark O Connell told the Food Agility Summit 2021 that the Sensors for Summerfruit program has a particular focus on managing fruit maturity, which in turn will increase customer satisfaction and drive more sales, with volumes set to increase in coming seasons. The summerfruit industry has a number of new orchard plantings coming into production, Dr O Connell said. They are focused heavily on developing export markets, in particular Asia. The fruit maturity is critical in determining the entire harvest and understanding storage and shelf-life - also consumer satisfaction. The current methods of measuring fruit quality and fruit maturity do suffer from small samp ....