Quality Maintenance and Storability of Chestnuts Manually and Mechanically Harvested

Monarca, Danilo; Moscetti, Roberto; Carletti, Letizia; Cecchini, M.; Colantoni, Andrea; Stella, Elisabetta; Menghini, C.; Speranza, Stefano; Massantini, Riccardo; Contini, Marina; Manzo, Amy

doi:10.17660/actahortic.2014.1043.19

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“…It is a case of an industry that, given the small average size of its enterprises, too often fails to cover every stage of the production chain; as such, market shortages (that is quantity demanded greater than quantity supplied), although increasing prices, tend to be of little avail to companies inasmuch as they lack the leverage over supply needed to reap any real benefit. All this creates price instability and lessens entrepreneurs' bargaining power and consequently the income to be earned from the relative entrepreneurial activities (Cecchini et al, 2010;Monarca et al, 2014). A farm's lesser or greater capacity for generating income derives, apart from its conduct with respect to the market, from the constraints it has to deal with while going about its business .…”

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Profitability of Artichoke Growing in the Mediterranean Area

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Cultivation of artichokes for production is significant in the Mediterranean Basin. Italy represents an important productive hub and in this context, Sicily has been one of the foremost production areas. Artichoke production is a stable element of either specialized or mixed production systems in the region. However, due to the economic recession and increasing imports of artichokes from North African countries, many companies are undergoing crisis, with concerns for the negative impact on the socioeconomic fabric, in terms of the rising unemployment an eventual collapse of this specific activity would determine. According to the theory of economic development, a prerequisite of a territory’s development is that its economic enterprises be competitive. Ensuing from this hypothesis, this article analyzes the profitability of artichoke production in the Mediterranean. The study was conducted in Sicily, an island in the heart of the Mediterranean, where its cultivation is a long-standing tradition. Our results showed a low profitability for artichoke cultivation in relation to the unfavorably high production costs, whereas the low market prices also reflect the competition from countries of North Africa.

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Profitability of Artichoke Growing in the Mediterranean Area

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“…Simpler algorithms, i.e. the one based on the peak value of accelerations [10,11], have been tested and discarded since they proved to trigger a large number of false positive warnings. In particular the conditions over the third windows have been introduced to eliminate the false positive cases that might arise during a running activity.…”

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Risk management in solitary agricultural work: new technologies for handling emergency and falls from great heights (SHADE)

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Solitary work and agricultural activities are the scenarios of a large number of severe injuries and deaths, also because first aid may be difficult to achieve in isolated locations. This work proposes a technology available on smartphones that allows triggering an emergency call when a fall from height or an unconsciousness state is detected. The results of several tests, which include different detection algorithms and scenarios, are reported in this work. Tests performed with the aid of a dummy have allowed developing a reliable algorithm for the detection of dangerous situations. This system is available as an Android application.

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“…The percentage of damaged fruit is higher when harvested mechanically than when harvested manually. The most common damage assessment refers to: petiole absence, superficial scratches, visible strokes and tears in the epidermis, and deep abrasions affecting a thicker layer of the epidermis (Monarca, D. et al, 2003;Monarca, D. et al, 2005;Monarca, D. et al, 2014b).…”

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Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture

2023

Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering

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EU forestry does not currently have automatic planters, hence the project proposes to develop an innovative technology in which the key role will be played by an autonomous planter designed for establishing forest cultures and afforestation of former farmland and reclaimed areas with the use of seedlings with a covered root system (grown in container nurseries). The device will have a self-levelling traction system, a control system with a satellite navigation module to support autonomous navigation and planting site selection, a mechanism of planting spot preparation, a planting unit, an intelligent robotic arm to feed seedlings from containers to the planting unit according to a given algorithm, a container storage unit with an automated feeder, a drive unit with an electro-hydraulic control system, a control module, and a wireless remote control system. The autonomous planter will significantly reduce the cost and machine inputs during establishing forest cultures and afforestation of former farmland and reclaimed areas with the use of seedlings with a covered root system, and thus perfectly fits into the assumptions of agriculture 4.0.

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Quality Maintenance and Storability of Chestnuts Manually and Mechanically Harvested

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Profitability of Artichoke Growing in the Mediterranean Area

Profitability of Artichoke Growing in the Mediterranean Area

Risk management in solitary agricultural work: new technologies for handling emergency and falls from great heights (SHADE)

Farm Machinery and Processes Management in Sustainable Agriculture

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