Factors and Developments in Grading Cut Flowers

  • Bae, Yeong-Hwan (Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering Sunchon National University) ;
  • Koo, Hyun-Mo (Assistant , Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Machinery Engineering Sunchon National University)
  • Published : 1996.06.01

Abstract

Grading and sorting fresh cut flowers are time consuming process. In Korea, cut flowers are sorted mostly by human inspection due to the lack of adequate machinery. In this paper, quality evaluation factors of cut flowers are discussed, and types of sorting machines existing in the market are introduced . Aspects of computer image processing in evaluation the quality of cut flowers are also discussed.

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