
Project to improve the competitiveness of the national almond sector (Operational Group for the detection and eradication of bitter almonds)
- Type Operational group
- Execution 2018 -2020
- Assigned Budget 574.000,00 €
- Scope Supraautonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía; Aragón; Balears, Illes; Cantabria; Castilla y León; Castilla - La Mancha; Cataluña; Comunitat Valenciana; Extremadura; Madrid, Comunidad de; Murcia, Región de
- Main source of financing PEPAC 2014-2020
- Project website https://sinalmendraamarga.es/
Description
Development of systems that can be used on an agronomic, productive and industrial scale to detect and eliminate bitter almond.
Objectives
- Field agronomic evaluation of bitter trees and their geolocation for possible elimination. Confirmation using Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) technology and use of novel hydrogen cyanide kits.
- Development of discriminant models with NIRS laboratory instruments that allow separating bitter and sweet almonds in batches at the reception entrance in almond cooperatives.
- Validation of prototypes with NIRS technology that allow the detection and elimination of bitter almonds individually, grain by grain (one by one), from batches of sweet almonds in the production line.
Results
- Map with the geolocation of trees likely to produce bitter almonds, Use of portable NIR equipment and hydrocyanic acid kits as a tool for the detection of bitter trees in the field.
- Discriminative model with NIR laboratory equipment and validation of a new NIR spectroscopy prototype, in the experimental phase, for the detection of bitter almonds at the reception or shelling plant.
- Prototype based on NIR-Hyperspectral technology for grain-by-grain detection of bitter almonds on an industrial scale.
Contact information
- Name of coordinator/entity: Association of almond and hazelnut exporters in Spain (ALMENDRAVE)
- Coordinator/entity email: almendrave@almendrave.com
Beneficiaries
- Agrupacion exportadores almendra y avellana España (ALMENDRAVE)
- Asociación española organizadores OPFH frutos secos y algarrobas (AEOFRUSE)
- Asociación nacional descascaradores almendra (DESCALMENDRA).Crisol de frutos secos SAT (CRISOL)
- Arboreto S.A.T
- ltda.
- Unio corporacion alimentaria (UNIO)
- Borges agricultural &
- Industrial nuts (BAIN)
- Mañan sociedad cooperativa
Outsourced
- Instituto de Investigación y Tecnología Agroalimentaria (IRTA)