Keeping track:New Fruit Tracker record-keeping tool has potential to be used by millions of growers worldwide

摘要

When it was "born" in 2007 in Eastern Ontario, Fruit Tracker was a simple CD-basedprogram created to reduce the amount of time apple and berry growers were spending on documenting food safety and traceability for CanadaGap. In 2011, it experienced a growth spurt and now it's all grown up, a sleek and powerful cloud-based system that tracks all orchard data year round, in one place, at growers' fingertips when needed. Its graduation to adulthood has nabbed the Ontario Tender Fruit Producers Marketing Board (OTF-PMB) a 2014 Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence.The OTFPMB describes Fruit Tracker as a record keeping and orchard management system that helps growers keep accurate records of production, food and worker safety and pest control.