GreenPod Labs

GreenPod Labs

Biotechnology Research

Chennai, Tamil Nadu 9,701 followers

Postharvest Solutions

About us

We provide cost-effective post-harvest solutions to extend the shelf life of fruits and vegetables during storage and transport. We're developing active packaging sachets which activates in-built defense mechanisms in fruits and vegetables to preserve its quality.

Website
http://greenpodlabs.com/
Industry
Biotechnology Research
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
Chennai, Tamil Nadu
Type
Privately Held
Founded
2019

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    Ambattur Puzhal High Road

    Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600053, IN

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    Sugar breakdown to respiration rate

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    Building GreenPod Labs | Agri-tech

    GreenPod Labs Insights: Respiration rate, ripening rate, and internal biochemistry changes are interlinked. Fruit internal sugar breakdown is directly connected to the respiration rate of the fruit. As the sugar breakdown increases the fruit moves toward senescence (towards death) thus fruit goes through a bell curve on the respiration rate. To establish this interaction, we devised a method to quantify the sugar breakdown using a Starch-Iodine test and measured the corresponding respiration rate. The higher the starch content darker the color of the banana with iodine (as shown in the picture below). From our product perspective, we focus on the internal biochemistry (input/ root cause) control to control the respiration rate and ripening rate (output). #greenpodlabs #sugarbreakdown #fruit #respirationrate

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    Science behind our product

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    Building GreenPod Labs | Agri-tech

    GreenPod Labs Insights: Plants on the pre-harvest levels and post-harvest levels go through two different forms of stress - Abiotic Stress (impact by high temperature, drought, salinity, etc.) and Biotic Stress (impact by microbes, Insects and pest, etc.). On the pre-harvest levels, the plant pushes to fight against these types of stress through its built-in defense mechanism (immune system). Nature has its own adaptability skills to make the crop adjust to these conditions. This is the back-end science behind our technology to make the crop fight against these stresses on the post-harvest levels. It's interesting to learn from nature and replicate that to adapt to external conditions. #greenpodlabs #biotic_abiotic_stress #defense_mechanism #biomimicry

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    Quality issues with rain affected bananas

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    GreenPod Labs Market Insights: When we spoke with several banana exporters, one of their major concerns was rain-affected bananas' shelf life and quality retention. We started doing product trials with heavy rain-affected bananas and collected several data to understand the ripening process. The data clearly showed the rain-affected bananas' ripening rate was significantly higher than non-rain-affected bananas. We wanted to understand the root cause (pun intended) of this issue. Digging deeper into this, at the pre-harvest stage - during rain or waterlogging - the plant root system is going through stress due to lack of oxygen. Instead of releasing ethylene under the root system, the plants are forced to release ethylene from the shoots - this translates into higher ethylene production within the banana bunch. Thus higher ripening rate on the supply chain. The other challenge during the rainy season is the presence of microorganisms in the water - which translates into higher microbes load on the banana bunch. This also causes higher levels of ripening and spoilage issues. We have done testing to evaluate how we can help the exporters ship bananas after rain with our product to extend the shelf life. #greenpodlabs #banana #rain #spoilage #quality Research link: https://lnkd.in/gzfEmcD7

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    Farm Variables!

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    GreenPod Labs Market Insights: The fruit growth pattern and post-harvest pattern are dependent on multiple factors. The plant variety might be the same across different locations in the country but the crop quality and shelf life might differ. The image below shows the scenario where the crop doesn't have any variations on the crop level (same genome), but it will still respond differently due to differences in atmosphere, sun exposure, soil type, nutrients, water source, etc. Understanding all the variables critical to building any consistency in the supply chain. We have been putting efforts into quantifying how these changes are affecting crop quality. Chakravarthy M GAYATHRI SAIVENKATESH Tharshini Venkatesh Jaganivash B #supplychain #greenpodlabs #quality #spoilage Image Courtesy: Chakravarthy M

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    Synthetic Chemicals Vs Surface Microbe Control

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    GreenPod Labs Insights: After banana harvest, bananas are washed with chlorine water and synthetic chemicals (anti-microbial) before being packed into 13 Kg boxes for the export supply chain. We heard from our customers that despite using synthetic chemicals they were still facing microbial growth in the destination market. To investigate this further, we wanted to understand the inconsistencies in the banana washing process and the microbial impact on that. We took actual water samples from the banana wash station and tested them for enumeration of microbes in our in-house microbiology lab. In a single farm on average 600 boxes of bananas are packed in a day - we took the water samples at the start during box 1 and at the end, after box 600. The synthetic chemical is added at the start of the process and used for the entire 600 boxes. This helped us compare the two extremes and evaluate where inconsistencies are. The results were fascinating, box 1 had zero cfu after the synthetic chemical wash, but, box 600 had 10^6 cfu per ml of microbes (extremely high). The effectiveness of the synthetic chemical in eradicating the surface microbes diminishes throughout the process. Thus despite using synthetic chemicals bananas are getting microbial spoilage at the destination market. This gives us more confidence to build the product for both delaying ripening and controlling surface microbes for the banana export market. Tharshini Venkatesh GAYATHRI SAIVENKATESH Dr. Shankar Subramaniam Chakravarthy M #microbes #greenpodlabs #spoilage #banana

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    Customer Language

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    GreenPod Labs Market Insights: Speaking customer language doesn’t mean the actual language or dialect alone but the words you’re using with them. This is very important while you work with a customer and help resonate with him. This helps build early trust faster. For example, within the fruit export market "customers' complaints" are referred to as “Claims”. During our early customer conversations, when we asked the exporters what type of customer complaints they received - they could not go deeper and, the responses always were surface level. When we learned about the term “Claims” and started using that with the exporters - the response rate increased significantly and with high precision. They started classifying the claims across different intensities and sharing the economics behind those claims. This information was super valuable for us to understand the importance of different quality-related challenges. Just by changing the words from “Customer complaints” to “Claims” - the customers were able to speak in specificity within their operations and had the right context. Link: https://lnkd.in/gjrdw7Wx #greenpodlabs #innovation #spoilage #exports #customerlanguage

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    Banana across different hands and its respiration rate

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    GreenPod Labs Market Insights: In a banana lungar, each bunch is classified as 4 hands, 5 or 6 hands, and 8 hands (as shown in the figure). The banana ripening characteristics change between the 4 hands, 6 hands, and 8 hands.  We wanted to understand this phenomenon technically, hence we started tracking the respiration rate of different bunches over their shelf life. The results showed a significant difference (45%) in respiration rate between 4 hands and 8 hands on day 14 at ambient temperature. 4 hands bunch present at the top of the banana lungar would ripen first - as the banana maturity starts from the top to bottom. This is translated on the respiration rate very well (4 hands respiring faster than 8 hands). In the destination markets for exports, 4 hands banana is considered premium bananas and fetches higher prices. At the same time, 4 hands are more susceptible to ripening-related spoilage and microbial growth. This is a very interesting problem to solve - extend the shelf life of 4 hands banana to reach longer markets and achieve higher prices. We just focused on building our product for 4 hands banana - providing the right economics for the exporters. Subramani சுப்ரமணி Chakravarthy M Jaganivash B #greenpodlabs #innovation #banana #spoilage

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    Simulating Supply Chain Dynamics

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    GreenPod Labs Market Insights: The fresh produce supply chain is very dynamic, the temperature and humidity is changes constantly. Quality control within this dynamic nature is important. Simulating the actual supply chain conditions within your R&D facility is very critical to see how our product could add value to the real challenges. One of the tools we use for this is our temperature, and humidity chamber - where we can simulate different supply conditions (various temperatures and humidity) to test the product and validate the functionality. This helps to bridge the gap between real-life fruits/ vegetables supply chain and in-house R&D validation. Once the initial validation is completed, running supply chain trials is critical for our product validation. Chakravarthy M Tharshini Venkatesh GAYATHRI SAIVENKATESH Jaganivash B

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    Within the farm understanding!

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    GreenPod Labs Market Insights: Banana exporters had a practice of not picking up bananas for export from the corner of a farm plot. We wanted to understand the rationale behind that. Last week, we visited 6 different farms and mapped out all the variations within the farm from corner to center. The banana trunk temperature across the farm varied from 26*C to 29*C due to sun exposure- very distinctive data. An increase in temperature and light exposure directly affects the photosynthesis process of the plant thus increasing the crop maturity. Thus the bananas on the corner plot are more susceptible to ripening (images show the same) than the center of the farm. When these bananas go into the export supply chain, it causes ripening related spoilage at the destination. Knowing the industry practices and building a data backing for it - is fascinating. This also helps us understand the value that we can provide for the export market. Dr. Shankar Subramaniam Chakravarthy M Jaganivash B GAYATHRI SAIVENKATESH Deep Chaudhari Manuj Gaikwad Piyush Kumar #banana #export #trunktemperature #greenpodlabs #farm #spoilage

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    Banana pulp% digitization

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    GreenPod Labs Market Insights: During the banana procurement for export market - several quality parameters are measured but the documentation is not done properly by majority of customers. This is massive problem to completely build transparency and predictability. While we were looking at bring in data science to eliminate human labor to quantify the quality parameters, they by-product is to keep a digital record of all the quality parameters across all the procurement. This would help the customer constantly improve their crop procurement practices and processes. Below is an example of digitizing pulp % of banana using AI/ML. #banana #exports #greenpodlabs

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