Evaluation of a Manual Olive Fruit Harvester for Small Producers

Harvest facilities limit the possibilities of small producers to produce a high-quality olive fruit. This paper discusses the efficiency of a newly designed manual picking device as a possible solution to these specific challenges as confronted in most regions of the Mediterranean basis. The efficie...

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Autores: Plasquy, Eddy, Sola Guiraldo, Rafael R., Florido Fernández, María del Carmen, García, José M., Blanco Roldán, Gregorio
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/172447
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/172447
https://doi.org/10.17221/18/2019-RAE
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Branch-shaker
Family orchard
Harvest efficiency
Inverted umbrella
Olea europaea
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Sumario:Harvest facilities limit the possibilities of small producers to produce a high-quality olive fruit. This paper discusses the efficiency of a newly designed manual picking device as a possible solution to these specific challenges as confronted in most regions of the Mediterranean basis. The efficiency and cost of the picking method were compared to traditional olive picking using nets, taking a different number of operators and branch shakers into account.