Projects

4 years of Pomeg-Tech services to customers:

Pomegranate farm planning

- Australia: Planning "from scratch" the first pomegranate commercial plantation on the continent and estimating its feasibility;
- Chile: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates;
- Cyprus: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates for two firms;
- Botswana: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates;
- Turkey: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates in two regions;

Supply of cuttings & saplings and assistance in the nursery

- South Africa: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Chile: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Peru: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Cyprus: provision of cuttings and saplings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Turkey: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work.

Provision of extension services and introduction of advanced growing technology

- Australia: Assisting in the planting of the first pomegranate commercial
plantation on the continent;
- Cyprus: Continuous work with individual growers and a local cooperative;
- Turkey: Continuous work with an enterprise and growers.

Industrial processing of pomegranates
- Cyprus: A pre-feasibility study of an aril extraction factory;

Planning and equipping a new pomegranate processing factory for the release of arils and juice production

- India: Planning and provision of a processing-line for a plant.

Global marketing of a new pomegranate juice
- India: Planning and implementation of a juice marketing strategy.

Participation in international symposia on pomegranates (ISHS)
- Turkey: Participating and delivering 2 professional presentations;
- India: Presenting 2 keynote speeches + 3 other talks.

Presenting interdisciplinary seminars on the pomegranate industry

- El Salvador: One seminar
- Chile: Six seminars
- Sicily: A seminar to investors and growers
- Peru: Two seminars
- Cyprus: Two seminars to growers' staffs
- Turkey: Two seminars to growers' staffs
- Brazil: A seminar to investors and growers
- China: A seminar to investors, growers and government officials

4 years of Pomeg-Tech services to customers:

Pomegranate farm planning

- Australia: Planning "from scratch" the first pomegranate commercial plantation on the continent and estimating its feasibility;
- Chile: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates;
- Cyprus: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates for two firms;
- Botswana: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates;
- Turkey: A pre-feasibility study of pomegranates in two regions;

Supply of cuttings & saplings and assistance in the nursery

- South Africa: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Chile: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Peru: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Cyprus: provision of cuttings and saplings and monitoring the nursery work;
- Turkey: provision of cuttings and monitoring the nursery work.

Provision of extension services and introduction of advanced growing technology

- Australia: Assisting in the planting of the first pomegranate commercial
plantation on the continent;
- Cyprus: Continuous work with individual growers and a local cooperative;
- Turkey: Continuous work with an enterprise and growers.

Industrial processing of pomegranates
- Cyprus: A pre-feasibility study of an aril extraction factory;

Planning and equipping a new pomegranate processing factory for the release of arils and juice production

- India: Planning and provision of a processing-line for a plant.

Global marketing of a new pomegranate juice
- India: Planning and implementation of a juice marketing strategy.

Participation in international symposia on pomegranates (ISHS)
- Turkey: Participating and delivering 2 professional presentations;
- India: Presenting 2 keynote speeches + 3 other talks.

Presenting interdisciplinary seminars on the pomegranate industry

- El Salvador: One seminar
- Chile: Six seminars
- Sicily: A seminar to investors and growers
- Peru: Two seminars
- Cyprus: Two seminars to growers' staffs
- Turkey: Two seminars to growers' staffs
- Brazil: A seminar to investors and growers
- China: A seminar to investors, growers and government officials

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Aril production

In spite of the pomegranate's many advantages and diversity, its potential has not been realized due to the inherent inconvenience and messy handling involved in extracting its seeds (arils). Until recently, whether one wanted to eat freshly picked fruit, produce high quality, tannin-free juice or derive various pharmaceutical products from the kernels it was a messy job.

Now, a novel and patented technique has been developed in Israel, enabling the automatic extraction of the arils as a stage in a comprehensive industrial process.

The process consists of conveying the fruit to the extraction machine directly from the orchard or from cold storage rooms. The fruit is washed and sorted, then subsequently moved through various stations where it is opened without being cut and the arils are exposed to the extraction mechanism. This separates the arils from extraneous materials and delivers them clean and undamaged to a packaging machine. A predetermined quantity is packed into a special MAP package, ready for shipment to the retail markets or to cold storage.

The machine is capable of extracting the clean arils from over 1 MT of fruit per hour, with an extraction efficacy of 90-95% and incurred mechanical damage of 5-8%. Damaged arils are removed manually or by an additional (optional) automatic sorting machine.

Currently, the shelf life of packed arils on cold shelves (4-6° C) is two weeks, but work continues in order to extend this.

Arils production