The cost of grape mechanical harvesting is more economical than the manual harvest?

Domingues, Fabrício; Águila, Juan Saavedra del

doi:10.1051/bioconf/20160701023

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“…However, the economic level of the mechanized harvesting deployment is also vital. However, even here, studies by other authors (Jobbágy et al, 2018(Jobbágy et al, , 2021Dominguez and del Aguila, 2016;Pezzi and Martelli, 2015;Tudisca et al, 2013) are in favour of mechanization of harvesting and consider the mechanized harvesting of grapes a way to increase the profitability of wine production.…”

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Evaluation and Impacts of Grape Harvester Parameters on Harvest Losses

Dočkalík

Jobbágy

2022

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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The subject of this study was to evaluate the visible crop losses during the mechanized harvesting of grapes, assess the impacts of changes in the machine parameters and thus to look for the possibility of reducing losses when utilizing this method of harvesting. A comparison with the amount of losses arising from the manual harvesting was also monitored. The research results indicated the average amount of total losses of 1.10–5.62% of harvested crop when utilizing mechanized harvesting. The monitoring revealed the losses occurring in the area of columns in the supporting structure. These ranged from 0.2% to 0.53% of harvested crop. Losses during manual harvesting were found at an average of 1.09% or 1.78%. This research explored how losses due to mechanized grape harvesting can be reduced.

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Evaluation and Impacts of Grape Harvester Parameters on Harvest Losses

Dočkalík

Jobbágy

2022

Acta Technologica Agriculturae

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“…Although the main objective of mechanizing the grape harvest is to reduce the need for labor, wine growers demand information about the costs of this investment to weigh their choices. Therefore, here we will show a study developed by Domingues & Aguila (2016) comparing mechanized and manual harvesting costs. The authors evaluated 154.9 hectares under mechanical harvesting and 366.7 hectares with manual harvesting and reported that the cost of manual harvesting was 133.3% higher than the value obtained for mechanical harvesting.…”

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Mechanized grape harvesting in Brazil: An agronomic view and new challenges / Colheita mecanizada de uva no Brasil: uma visão agronômica e novos desafios

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Nardi³

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Mechanized grape harvesting in Brazil, although considered a strategy that can optimize the vine's production chain in the country, still raises questions about losses, damages, profitability and quality of the harvested berries. Thus, it is important to compile information available on the scarce state of the art on mechanized grape harvesting and make it available to horticulturists, scientists and industries. Therefore, this review provides an overview of the mechanization process of the grape harvest and its relationship with the establishment of managements that allow enhancing this practice. Here, we report the evolution of mechanized grape harvesting, the use and functioning of self-propelled harvesters and the challenges of mechanized harvesting. This will allow us to propose new lines of research for future investigations.

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“…It should be pointed out, however, that the revenue shown in Table 1 is for the first year. Over the span of 25 years (under which the PV is under warranty), the efficiency of solar PV farm will decrease each year of all PV technologies is about 1%/year [67] and the majority of modules should be less than this at around 0.5%/year [68]. However, the functional lifetime of the PV can be much greater than that and with proper care, grapevines can live for 50 to 100 years or more.…”

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Agrivoltaic potential on grape farms in India

Malu

Sharma

Pearce

2017

Sustainable Energy Technologies and Assessments

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Aggressive growth of land-based solar photovoltaic (PV) farms can create a land use conflict with agricultural production. Fortunately, this issue can be resolved using the concept of agrivoltaics, which is co-development of land area for both solar PV and agriculture. To investigate and quantify PV generation potential, without harming agriculture output, this study explores the viability of agrivoltaic farms deployment on existing grape farms in India. Considering the shade tolerance of grapes, an techno-economicanalysis is run for the installation of PV systems in the area available between the trellises on a grape farm. The electrical energy generation potential is determined per unit area and economic benefits for the cultivators is quantified over a number of design options. The results show the economic value of the grape farms deploying the proposed agrivoltaic systems may increase more than 15 times as compared to conventional farming, while maintaining the same grape production. If this dual use of land is implemented nationwide, it can make a significant impact by generating over 16,000 GWh electricity, which has the potential of meeting the energy demands of more than 15 million people. In addition, grape-based agrivoltaics can be implemented in rural areas to enable village electrification.

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The cost of grape mechanical harvesting is more economical than the manual harvest?

Cited by 6 publications

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Evaluation and Impacts of Grape Harvester Parameters on Harvest Losses

Evaluation and Impacts of Grape Harvester Parameters on Harvest Losses

Mechanized grape harvesting in Brazil: An agronomic view and new challenges / Colheita mecanizada de uva no Brasil: uma visão agronômica e novos desafios

Agrivoltaic potential on grape farms in India

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