Reduced food waste

Grimme Skandinavien are participating in a project concerning reduced food waste.

Competitiveness and profitability in much of the Danish food industry is declining. The fruit and vegetable sector are quite bad, where 30% of the production of potatoes, fruit and vegetables never reach retail stores and consumers. Instead, it becomes food waste. A major new innovation consortium, led by AgroTech A/S, will examine how the waste in the value chain from farm to fork can be significantly reduced.

Since 2000, Danish production of potatoes, fruit and vegetables has significantly lost competitiveness, and it is partly due to large amounts of waste in the value chain from farm to fork. The annual waste in the value chain of potatoes, fruit and vegetables is approx. 368,000 tons. It means that you could fill one long flatbed truck on the highway from North Jutland to the German border. The waste means that production costs are too high and that the primary producers do not achieve revenue and earnings of 30% of the potatoes, fruits and vegetables that are already used resources to produce, harvest and store over the winter.

AgroTech, together with the various collaborators in the value chain, will implement the methods in the value chain, so that growing, harvesting, storage and preparation can be optimized and waste reduced.

Grimme Skandinavien are participating in the project as a technologi company. Read more about the project in danish  HERE and in English HERE