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The Development of Mechanical Apple Harvesting Technology: A Review
- Source :
- Transactions of the ASABE. 59:1165-1180
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), 2016.
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Abstract
- Harvest is one of the most challenging production tasks in apple production. It is a labor-intensive operation, and mechanization has been slow in development for a myriad of reasons. With increasing labor costs and decreasing availability of harvest employees, researchers have been focusing on mechanical apple harvest technologies. Studies on semi-automatic harvesters, harvest robots, and harvest-assist platforms target development of mechanical apple harvesting. Semi-automatic harvesters for fresh market apples have not been commercialized due to unacceptably high incidence of apple bruising. Harvest robots have not been commercialized due to their high costs and low efficiency. Apple harvest-assist platforms are a technology that has the potential to be more widely commercialized based on the current research.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Engineering
business.industry
Biomedical Engineering
Soil Science
Forestry
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
Agricultural engineering
01 natural sciences
Hardware_GENERAL
ComputerApplications_MISCELLANEOUS
040103 agronomy & agriculture
Fresh market
0401 agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
Production (economics)
Operations management
High incidence
business
GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Agronomy and Crop Science
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
Mechanization
010606 plant biology & botany
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 21510040 and 21510032
- Volume :
- 59
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Transactions of the ASABE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........3b3765bb02bd0e14eff7bca7c9c68a6b