“ Our weekly slash flower sale went from 10,000 to 2000 , as the Vietnamese COVID-19 restrictions have recently severely impacted our Phalaenopsis sale , ” says Robert Wang , Marketing and Sales Manager at Apollo Farm . The Vietnamese ship’s company develop both contract orchidaceous plant and pot orchids in their nursery and sells their mathematical product under the trade name name Sunpride . Wang is bright that the flower sales will shortly find fault up again and is in the meantime focusing on modern labor that will aid better their business . From AI to VR , Wang explicate what it is that we can expect in Apollo Farm ’s near future . The Apollo team atHortEx Vietnam2020Impact of COVID-19Wang explains that COVID-19 is still a serious take in Vietnam and that it is affecting their flower sale . “ Our stinger bloom sales run from 10,000 a week to 2000 stems a hebdomad . There is nothing we can do about this state of affairs . The political science applied a restricted policy to prevent a further spread of COVID , cause many bloom distributors to halt operation . Therefore , it is very challenging for company to deliver flowers , and many are force to throw them by . ”New varieties being tested in the greenhouseOverall , however , their annual flush yield has been slightly increasing . “ We used to produce 1.4 million cold shoulder bloom stems per twelvemonth , which has now increased to 1.5 million . We thought 2021 would see an step-up as well , but COVID restriction fix in the way . However , we are hopeful that Lunar New Year will meliorate our business again . The celebration is held on February 1 , 2022 , and always leads to an increase in efflorescence need . ”Cut heyday packing team in Vietnam
AI to recognize Phalaenopsis diseaseAccording to Wang , Apollo Farm is taking this time to focus on projects that will aid their company improve in the hereafter . First of all , they are make with the National Tsing Hua University ’s department of ‘ Power of Mechanical Engineering ’ in Taiwan to establish an AI arrangement for their greenhouse . “ This scheme will avail to recognize disease on our Phalaenopsis . There will be a camera in the greenhouse that can scan the leaves and notice if there are any diseases there . So far , we have give the system more than ten thousand photo example of rotten Phalaenopsis leaves , so that it can recognize the radiation diagram . At the import it has an accuracy of about 88 - 96 % , depending on different symptom . This will serve us become much more efficient , as currently our young plants from Taiwan need to be checked by employees before they get transferred to the greenhouse . And it will not only save us much time , it will also improve the lineament of our Phalaenopsis . ”Plants in the Apollo nursery , cultivated with Bark Medium
VR videos and a new online Phalaenopsis platformIn gain to working on improving their cultivation , Apollo Farm is also working on providing an on-line platform that will facilitate the Phalaenopsis deal . “ We cooperate with a Taiwanese fellowship to work on an online B2B platform , specifically for Phalaenopsis . This will result in an online shop where the suppliers can gather , and the vendee can see the full overview of available products without having to visit Vietnam . We hope to get this flower trading political platform quick for exercise in 2022.”And that is not where Apollo Farm ’s projects end . “ As traveling is challenge at the moment , it is more difficult to do the marketing of our Cartesian product as we are not able to show them in person as much as we are used to . Therefore , we settle to develop a VR 360 stage video recording where everyone can take the air through our facilities in Taiwan and Vietnam , and see our products . We are wait this to be online in November and are hoping that this will be helpful for our customers . ”For more data : Apollo Co. , Ltd[email protected]www.sunprideflora.com
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