COVID-19 pandemic can have many consequences. On the one hand, limited access to workers from the East may result in some growers not finding enough people and having problems with harvesting of fruit. On the other hand, if the situation does not change by then, many Poles who have lost their jobs due to the closure of their places of employment, such as restaurants, hotels, and other service companies, will seek employment on plantations – but they will expect higher wages. In both scenarios, the production costs will increase.
Despite the fact that the situation in the Polish market does not seem to encourage investment in machinery, it may ultimately prove very beneficial. When growers have trouble finding workers to pick fruit, it may not be possible to hire enough people for the packhouse. It’s likely that fruit growers will prefer to deliver fruit in bulk, but eventually someone will have to pack it.
According to Maciej Chmielewski from the Milbor PMC company dealing in the supply of sorting and packaging machines to soft fruits, many growers should consider whether the investment in machines will not be a solution to the problem of lack of hands to work.
We have customers who, thanks to the installation of a packaging line equipped with a 12-scale Evolution weigh & fill with sorters for softness and color, reduced the number of packaging staff from 90 to 20, while increasing the efficiency packed to 1.5 tons per hour. Employees who have been packing fruit so far can power deficiencies in collecting groups – explains M. Chmielewski.
Due to the fact that we cooperate with the American manufacturer of A&B Packing Equipment machines, we are not afraid of production downtime. We are able to provide sorting and packaging lines before the start of the 2020 season. We have a very well-equipped spare parts warehouse and an experienced service team, ready to support customers even on these difficult days – adds M. Chmielewski.
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