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Episode 47: Postharvest Technology with Bikram Hundal

9/8/2023

Bikram Hundal is the vice president of operations for Custom Almonds and Sequoia Nut Company. Hundal shares how technology is changing the game in almond processing with optical sorters, artificial intelligence, robotics and other advancements. This technology allows for potential opportunities for data to be shared between growers, hullers and processors to capture more value for everyone involved.

In Today’s episode:
  • Meet Bikram Hundal the vice president of operations for Custom Almonds and Sequoia Nut Company
  • Discover Hundals journey into almonds and the new technology he is excited about expanding within the almond industry
  • Explore some of the industry-wide improvements that are occurring as result of COVID challenges
“ If we really think about it, there's literally no waste that is out there in almonds. With other commodities, they have to say ‘oh we throw those away’ for instance with the hulls. But for almonds, we have a great use for every part of the almond throughout its whole life cycle.
Bikram Hundal
Topics: Almond Processing, Podcast Episodes