National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692 Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
India is one of the largest producers of citrus in the world. Among the various operations followed by the producers while cultivation of orange, harvesting is the most critical in terms of possible damage to the fruits and musculoskeletal stress on the worker. This research work was carried out to develop the ergonomically feasible manual orange fruit harvesting system. The developed system consists of the aluminum tripod adjustable as per the operator's height and the whole harvester assembly mounted on the tripod. The performance of the improved system evaluated in terms of fruit selection, harvest rate, fruit damage and field performance by field tests and compared with traditional harvesting methods. The maximum harvest rate ranged from 49.26 to 64.12 kg/h and 37.12 to 45.70 kg/h for the harvesting of orange fruits by the traditional and improved method, respectively. The average damage to fruits in traditional method observed 14 percent and it was almost no fruit damage in improved method. The improved harvesting system found better than traditional methods and reduces musculoskeletal stress on the operator.
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