Olive harvesting is one of the most laborious and expensive agricultural practices. Indeed, it
absorbs 50% of the product value, and this is due to the continuous increasing of labour …

Personal exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is mainly associated with indoor
exposures; however, elevated short-term exposures may also occur during ambient …

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

As one of the oldest continuously produced tree crops in the world, it is ironic that table olive
(Olea europaea) production has benefitted from few technological innovations, including …

The relation of hand-harvesting cost in plum and prune production to the total costs amounts
to 25-40%. Mechanical harvesting makes it possible to cut drastically both the harvesting …

In 2014, plum, sour cherry and sweet cherry trees were planted in an experimental plot of
the Institute of Horticulture–National Research Institute at a distance of 4.5 m between rows …

Mechanical harvesting of plum fruit cuts drastically costs of production.'Elena'plum trees
were planted, at a high density (4× 1.0 m and 4× 1.5 m) and trained to a horizontal canopy …

Plums, sweet cherry, and sour cherry trees were spaced 4.5 m× 1.5 m to be trained to “Y”
and “V”-trellising systems for mechanical harvesting, with a canopy contact harvester …

The main anatomic parts of the olive tree are the root system, trunk, main branches, leaves,
buds, inflorescences and flowers, and fruit. These parts perform important physiological and …

Two plum cultivars 'Record'and 'Empress' and one prune cultivar 'Common Prune'were
planted in spring 2014, spaced at 4.5× 1.5× 2.0 m, to be trained to the “Y”-and “V”-trellising …