Finding sustainable, environmentally friendly ways to protect tree nuts post-harvest.
Welcome
VerdanTech Solutions
In California almonds are harvested in September and October.
Almonds are harvested in California in September and October. They are placed into huge piles to await removal of the hull and the shell. Currently the piles are covered by tarpaulins and fumigated with phosphine to control storage insect pests.
Almonds first go the huller and sheller. The hull (outer casing) and shell (inner casing) are removed, leaving only the kernel.
At all stages throughout the processing the nuts are susceptible to insect pests. Fumigation kills the insect pests, but once the gas has dissipated then the nuts are susceptible again and the insects can move back in.
What we do
VerdanTech Solutions is developing an organic, sustainable way of controlling storage insect pests in almonds post-harvest. Once sprayed onto the almonds it protects them throughout the processing. We are working with the University of California campuses at Berkeley and Merced to identify how much pesticide is required to control the insects as well to develop the machinery to apply it to nuts once they have been harvested.
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Contact
Brian Duggan on
+61 408 710 509
Mailing address:
c/o Robbins, Browning, Godwin and Marchini LLP, 700 Loughborough Drive Ste D, Merced, CA 95348
