The presence of stored product pests has very negative effects on the product – they consume, spoil and damage the product resulting in product loss, reduced quality, loss of earnings and possibly even rejection. Safeguarding our nation’s products against these pests is all stakeholders’ responsibility.
Unfortunately eliminating pests is usually left to the exporter or consumer of the finished product, placing all the pressure on the final fumigation. There is not much consideration given to monitoring and controlling infestations at all locations associated with the supply chain throughout the year. Many stakeholders view the monitoring process as a cost centre and cannot see the benefits further down the supply chain.
Pheromone traps are placed in areas where tobacco is handled, stored or processed to monitor activity levels of tobacco beetle and tobacco moth. There are currently thousands of traps that are manually monitored weekly throughout the world.
Fumigation solutions is powerful and simple one stop solution offering a central system that allows for nationwide collection of data and transparency of information. The information is captured live in the field via any smart device.
Fumigation is a method of exterminating pests by use of a lethal gas in an enclosed space. This process usually takes 5 to 10 days to complete successfully. The gas concentrations are monitored daily to ensure the exposure limits are met for the required time frame. These results are often captured manually with gas monitoring equipment in the field. The drawback with this is often the results are not communicated to management or the client until the end of a job. Fumigation Solutions offers a fumigation management tool which allows scheduling and planning of fumigation jobs, information capture, calculations and capturing of gas concentrations live by the fumigation technician in the field. Therefore management and clients are easily able to monitor and manage their fumigation jobs. The platform can also automatically generate fumigation certificates.
