Planning a Development of an Inspection System for Farm Products

It is important to increase the amount of trade in farm products. When exporting farm products, the quarantine of noxious insects is often necessary. In general, the inspection system for farm products is difficult, since the harvest season is short and the subject of detection is unclear. Therefore, it is difficult to plan development of such inspection systems. In this paper, the results of an inspection-system-development plan are described. In particular, we focus on peaches intended for export from Japan to Taiwan, since the insect we have decided to detect is clear in this case. The necessity of the subgoal for each year is also shown. Then, experimental results using a real system and real peaches are described. The results make it clear that suitable subgoals are important, and that the flexible modification of these subgoals is necessary. Furthermore, the detection time in the third system became half of that in first system.