Currently, table olives, unlike oil olives, are harvested manually. Shortage of manpower and
increasing labor costs are the main incentives to mechanizing the harvesting of table olives …

Abstract'Manzanilla', today's main table olive cultivar, is traditionally harvested manually.
However, manual harvesting is becoming less economically feasible due to increasing labor …

The manual harvest of olives is one of the most expensive operations in the table olives
production, but the use of the electric hand-guided machines triples the productivity. The …

Industry 4.0 designates the recent digital revolution in the industrial sector, evolving from the
comprehensive networking and automation of all the productive areas. Equipment …

This article presents a fruiting branch shaker designed for litchi (Sonn.) harvesting and field
testing results of the mechanical shaker with abscission chemical treatment. During the …

BACKGROUND Because of damage caused by mechanical harvesting, the drupes for table
olive production are traditionally hand harvested. Until now, no data have been available on …

The olive tree (Olea europaea L.) is a Mediterranean tree adapted to drought conditions and
traditionally rainfed. For irrigated olive groves, there is extensive knowledge about the …

The combined effect of an edible coating and a nitrogen atmosphere on the quality of
Manzanilla olives mechanically harvested and processed as Spanish-style green olives was …

A full factorial design evaluated the combined effects of harvesting method (manual vs
facilitated), storage temperature (25 C vs 6.5 C) and their interaction, aiming to understand if …

Background An engine operated jamun harvester to shake the limb with adjustable shaking
frequency and amplitude was developed. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the …