Cost Analysis of Olive Harvesting By Hand-Held Machine
- Author H. A. Mansour
- Co-Author Th. A. Elmesiry, A. A. Abdelhady
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- Country : Egypt
- Subject : Agricultural Engineering
Keywords : Hand-Held, Machine, Olive varieties, Evaluation, Cost analysis, Egypt
Abstract
Field experiments were carried out in the Experimental Farm of Agricultural Production and Research Station (APRS), National Research Centre (NRC), Nubaria Province, El-Behaira Governorate, Egypt. The effect of the use of different speeds in (rpm) and operating period in (min) on harvest productivity and damage percent were evaluated. The main objective of this research is to economical evaluated of hand-held machine harvester for olive. This work describes the complete design of an olive harvesting machine especially conceived for secular olive plants with the purpose of increasing the mechanization level of the harvest operation and permitting the production of high quality fruits. It could be concluded that using of the machine resulted in declining in operating cost by 37.1% compared to using the manual method. The harvesting by using machine costs about 0.39 L.E/kg while the manual about 0.5 – 0.75 L.E/ kg. This meaning that the hand-held machine designed saved about 37.1% of manual cost.
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