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An olive grower was invited to organise a full day harvesting test based on two rolling canvas prototypes, using his own trunk shaker, tractors and labour. This paper reports the results observed, making also a comparison with the usual harvesting method followed by the farmer, based on a trunk shaker and canvas manually placed under the trees.
Results show that the rolling canvas based system has got a slightly higher work rate, and according to the workers, is less demanding in terms of physical effort.
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Olives Mechanical harvesting ±400 trees/ha
Citation
Almeida, Arlindo; Peça, José; Pinheiro, Anacleto; Dias, António; S.S.dos Lopes, João; Gomes, José (2008). Farmer’s evaluation of a rolling canvas prototype against his own system for harvesting olives. In 5th International Symposium on Olive Growing e Acta Horticulturae. ISSN 0567-7572. 791, p. 235-239
Publisher
International Society for Horticultural Science