Fruit wrapper / Mohd Suri Saringat … [et al.]

• Main Authors: Saringat, Mohd Suri, Sulaiman, Nor Hisham, Ghazali, Muhammad Hazim Syahim, Mas'at, Nurul Emalia Azua
• Format: Book Section
• Language: English
• Published: Division of Research, Industrial Linkages and Alumni, UiTM Cawangan Melaka 2013
• Subjects: S Agriculture (General)
• Online Access: https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79026/1/79026.pdf; https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/79026/

Medium sized fruit tree planting is very popular in Malaysia either for commercialization or for personal gain. Fruit wrapping is process where farmers wrap fruits on the tree to get good quality of fruits and to avoid fruits become rotten due to fruit flies and pests. The purposes of this invention are to ease farmers or users to wrap fruits once it's fruited without climbing the trees and to reduce time taken for wrapping. Traditionally, farmers will climb up tree to wrap fruits 20-24 days after fruited. The risks are tree branches easily broke as they will fall from tree and they have to spend times to climb the trees. This product really helpful as farmers can wrap easily without risking their life and can save time because they don't have to climb up trees for wrapping but they can do it from the ground. Hence with this invention, hopefully it can be commercialized and manufactured as the material used to assemble this product can be found easily with low cost. It also will increase farmer's productivities with low risks and minimal times taken to wrap fruits.