Manual harvesting of fruits is an expensive, time‐consuming, and labor‐intensive operation.
Due to labor shortages in the late 1950s, mechanical harvesters were developed to reduce …

Mechanized harvesting technologies with shaking systems for fruit industry have been
widely investigated and significantly developed over the past several decades which were …

Olive fruit and its oil are in great demand due to its nutritional value, which can be influenced
by the pre-and post-harvest factors. The preand post-harvest factors are discussed in this …

Harvesting in intensive olive orchards is usually performed with trunk shakers. Many
challenges remain both to the implementation of integral harvesting systems and to …

The present study analyses the transmission of vibrations generated from a multidirectional
trunk shaker to olive tree structure considering both the aerial zone (trunk and branches) …

Table olive harvesting is highly dependent on manual labour and may jeopardize the crop
benefit. The introduction of a mechanical harvest system requires a global evaluation of the …

Most crops destined for industrial transformation employ mechanical harvesters that have
been developed satisfactorily by adapting the tree to the machine features. Not all fruit trees …

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

Key message The in situ 3D root architecture of Olea europea was described by a semi-
automatic 3D digitizing approach, which permitted the estimation of the biomass and carbon …

The harvesting process of the olive tree is mainly performed by manual means, because
traditional olive orchards (the main planting typology) are formed of irregular, large-canopy …