Why should you use a fruit sunburn protection cover?
When a farmer uses a fruit sunburn protection cover, they are actually accomplishing several tasks at once, which we will mention below:
- The fruit sunburn protection cover reduces damage from fruit sunburn, which highlights the great importance of the cover. This single type of damage alone can impose a significant financial burden on the farmer, causing them to easily lose their domestic and foreign markets, as the appearance of the fruit is one of the key factors for marketability to customers and brokers in both domestic and international markets.
- The fruit sunburn protection cover reduces the use of expensive fortifying fertilizers and imported, costly nutritional supplements, saving those funds for essential needs and farm maintenance.
- The fruit sunburn protection cover enhances the taste and color of the fruit and increases the tenderness of the fruit’s skin due to the reduced use of expensive pesticides and fertilizers.
What is meant by fruit sunburn?
In the agricultural industry, protecting crops throughout all stages of plant growth—including planting, cultivation, and harvesting—is of great importance. At all growth stages, agricultural covers must come to humanity’s aid so they can save their products from the uncontrollable and unpredictable dangers of nature to ensure a return on investment and be able to supply their product to domestic and global markets. One of the crucial stages where these covers should be used is the harvesting stage, where all the farmer’s efforts during the growing season are realized.
Therefore, protecting fruits from harmful and intense sun radiation, which makes the beautifully colored and delicate appearance of fruits rough and spotted, is very important. This protection against the condition of sunburn is provided by the fruit sunburn protection cover. The Yazdlaie company has begun producing this fruit sunburn protection cover, which not only protects the fruit from the sun and its harmful radiation but also preserves the taste and quality of the fruits.
How does the sunburn protection cover prevent damage to fruits?
As we all know, sunlight is beneficial and necessary for plant growth, fruit coloring, and the foliage of trees. However, in addition to beneficial radiation, sunlight also has harmful radiation. In some stages of plant growth, the sun’s harmful radiation damages the plant, such as during the coloring stage of fruits and vegetables.
At this stage, receiving the right amount of light to fully charge the plant’s photosynthesis is sensitive, like a double-edged sword. A little less than required, and the fruits become pale and do not ripen; a little more, and the fruits become spotted, burn, turn brown, and their color becomes dull and matte. Therefore, the use of a fruit sunburn protection cover must be tailored to the farm’s geographical location, the city’s distance from the equator, sunrise and sunset times, the type of crop being cultivated, the crop’s sensitivities, and the specific growth stage in which these fruit sunburn protection covers are used.
The grammage (thickness) of these fruit sunburn protection covers used varies in different cities of our country. For example, in southern cities, if a thick grammage sunburn protection cover is used, the plant’s photosynthetic charge decreases, and the fruit or vegetable, for instance, a tomato cover, will become pale. Or, for example, if our crop is eggplant, the sunburn protection covers should be thicker to block more sunlight, as excessive sunlight turns eggplants red and can lead to spider mite infestations.
Do fruit sunburn protection covers have side benefits?
Fruit sunburn protection covers have many benefits in addition to preventing fruit sunburn. The fruit sunburn protection cover helps maintain the plant’s vitality and keeps the leaves fresh.
The fruit sunburn protection cover protects branches and lateral buds, and it prevents dust from settling on orchard and field crops. The fruit sunburn protection cover increases the marketability of fruits. Furthermore, these sunburn protection covers prevent damage from insects and birds to fruits, leaves, and terminal buds. These sunburn covers play an essential role in increasing the volume of trees and bushes, which are the plant’s reservoirs for absorbing solar energy.
Is using a fruit sunburn protection cover economically viable?
Using fruit sunburn protection covers is completely economically viable because these covers eliminate the cost of purchasing fortifying fertilizers, and they increase the product yield per hectare.
Can the fruit sunburn protection cover also be used in a greenhouse?
It is better to say that this excellent product, the fruit sunburn protection cover, can be used wherever plants are present. This fruit sunburn cover is usable in greenhouses as a protector for products and even for protecting all parts of the plant during the summer season. These sunburn covers are applicable at all stages of plant growth in a greenhouse.
How is the sunburn protection cover produced?
This fruit sunburn protection cover is used in all branches related to the planting, cultivation, and harvesting of plants. At the Yazdlaie company, the fruit sunburn protection cover is specifically produced in widths of 5 and 7 meters, in useful grammages for this purpose, ranging from 25 to 50, and in white color. The production of the fruit sunburn protection cover is done through the method of granule melting, spraying, and pressing.
The constituent material of these fruit sunburn protection covers is polypropylene, to which strengthening and elasticity options have been added.
Technical specifications of the fruit sunburn protection cover :
The material of the fruit sunburn protection covers is polypropylene.
The roll width of the fruit sunburn protection covers is 5 and 7 meters.
The grammage of the fruit sunburn protection covers ranges from 25 to 50.
The roll length of the fruit sunburn protection covers is 250 meters.
What do the selected width and grammage of the fruit sunburn protection cover depend on?
It depends on the type of crop cultivated, the geographical location of the cultivation site, and the planting method of the crop.
Sale of fruit sunburn protection cover :
The sale of fruit sunburn protection covers at the Yazd Laie company is done on a cash basis, and the minimum purchasable roll of fruit sunburn protection cover is one 250-meter roll in a width of 5 or 7 meters.
Factors that increase the resistance of the fruit sunburn protection cover :
The more UV material added to the fruit sunburn protection covers, the more their resistance to natural and physical damaging factors increases. Additionally, the correct method of using the fruit sunburn protection covers increases the cover’s lifespan.