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Storage and Handling of Kiwifruit
Start Afresh is once again offering its 2-day Storage and Handling of Kiwifruit training opportunity for the Kiwifruit postharvest sector. Since 2016, over 1500 people have attended Start Afresh training courses designed to improve understanding in the industry and ultimately improve quality outcomes for the industry.
This mid-level course covers basic physiology, principles of storage and inventory management and important principles that will improve understanding and assist your staff that deal with kiwifruit from harvest to storage. This course would be suited to quality staff in the packhouse, coolstore staff, inventory managers, or those interacting with the industry and want a solid understanding of kiwifruit and what affects it’s longevity in storage.
This course is co-branded with Massey University.
Date: 2-3 December 2024
Venue: The Charthouse, 72 Keith Allen Drive, Sulphur Point, Tauranga
Charge: $525+GST (note a $175+GST admin fee will be charged for withdrawal within 7 days of the event)
This course will cover the following:
| Time | Activity |
| DAY 1 | |
| 0845 – 0900 | Registration, tea & coffee |
| 0900 – 0930 | Introduction |
| 0930 – 1230 | Session 1: Understanding Fruit (incl. morning tea) |
| 1215 – 1245 | Lunch |
| 1245 – 1330 | Session 2: Principles of Heat Transfer |
| 1330 – 1400 | Session 3: Sources of Heat |
| 1430 – 1600 | Session 4: Cooling Operations (incl. afternoon tea) |
| Day 2 | |
| 0830 – 1115 | Field Trip – Venue to be confirmed (incl. morning tea) |
| 1115 – 1230 | Session 5: Modifying the Atmosphere |
| 1230 – 1300 | Lunch |
| 1300 – 1500 | Session 6: Impacts on Quality |
| 1500 – 1600 | Session 7: Transport systems (incl. afternoon tea) |
| 1600 – 1615 | Reflection, feedback and closing remarks |
You can secure spaces for the following opportunity by emailing david.tanner@startafresh.co.nz.
Nick BarrettCoolstore Manager - EastPack LimitedThank you and your team for putting on a course that was so engaging and accurate to our industry, and very well presented. The sort of stuff you are teaching I believe is so important to our industry especially when we are having as many quality issues as we are currently, onshore and overseas.
Kevin Cheadle5 High Automation Operator - EastPack LimitedI would like to say again what an awesome course you provide last week, I really enjoyed it and I must say it is the best kiwi fruit course I have done in fact I have run out of people to talk to about it. Being a grower and working in a cool store environment there is such an urgency to get our storage right first time and this course certainly addressed these issues. And there were certainly things I didn’t know or was unsure of. Personally, I would like to see this course go out to a lot more people, even if another course was modified to capture entry level starters who have no idea of the industry, as they would gain so much experience and we can get the skill set right at the beginning. Anyway, I will carry on being passionate about the industry and certainly be an ambassador for this course and to get more people trained. Keep up the good work.