Developing wild berry business to boost local economy and social cohesion
Sweden
Current situation requiring improvements
- Wild berry refining industry is underdeveloped, as wholesalers prefer to export
- Reliance on foreign labour for picking.
Main activities in FAIRCHAIN
- Develop an ICT tool to map and help detect the location of wild berries to facilitate picking by the local population
- Development of local berry cleaning and sorting companies and industrial regional processing companies
