“Currently in China, we can see that most agricultural products, such as potatoes or Onions, are transported in bulk, not bags.” When transported in bulk, usually 30 percent of fresh produce is discarded, usually because of decay and bad treatment. If the goods, such as potatoes, Onions, carrots, cabbage, citrus, etc., these can be packed in the bag, or also can use the pallet packaging, we all know, these losses could be prevented. Compared with bulk transport, consumers can’t track the source of their products as another advantage of packaging and pallet packaging. Fpc2’s sales representative in China explains this: “whether it’s food scandals or soil and water pollution, it’s more and more important to be traceable.”
In the past few years, more and more consumption has been made by Chinese consumers. What is increasing is their awareness of food safety. “When people buy fruit and vegetables, they hope to country of origin can be found, also want to know, sowing time and information product is organic, but as long as have a look at the label can be achieved by this time, is all to know,” shi lei added. “These messages are delivered to consumers through our grid packaging solutions, and we are increasingly targeting domestic markets as well.”
“Now, we choose our packing and transportation, rather than choose bulk transport and prolong quality, easier to store and transport need to be promote, and trace the product back to also can achieve their origins,” Ning Fan concluded.
“It is our aim to demonstrate these features to our clients, and to achieve this, it is our plan to launch a pilot packaging company in China.” Sending their raw products to the packaging houses is what farmers can do, sorting, cleaning, drying, grading, weight, packaging and labelling all these steps are applied to produce. After that, palletization and packaging will be carried out for different bags, with the purpose of making it easier to transport. Generally speaking, European packaging companies are buying agricultural products from farmers, or working with farmers to do the job, which is what European packaging companies do.
“The location of the new packaging house has now been decided by us.” Our main concentrated provinces are in agricultural provinces, such as Shandong in eastern China, Inner Mongolia in the northwest and Xinxiang. We will invite farmers and growers to use our packaging and pallet facilities for a small fee. After the packaging of our products is good and ready, farmers when sold in the market will be able to get a higher price, and it is a win-win situation, because they will be able to get their investments.”