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Confidex NFC Tags Monitor Fruit Growth for Banana Grower

The NFC tags are mounted on iron pipes in the open near each banana tree. The plantation expects to deploy 105,000 NFC tags in the first stage of the rollout.

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By: Anthony Locicero

Copy editor, New York Post

Near Field Communications (NFC) tags to manage and track bananas are currently being deployed in a first-of-its-kind application by the Da K’Nang Laba Banana Cooperative in Vietnam.   Bananas are an important part of the agricultural economy in Vietnam. Production has increased more than 3% each year over the past several decades. Bananas are a multi-billion-dollar market, and Vietnamese farmers have steadily been increasing exports to countries like Japan and China.   Traditionally, ban...

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