Assessment of the Performance of Fruit Harvest Platform in Harvesting of Some Fruit Species

Bazı Meyve Türlerinin Hasadında Meyve Hasat Platformu Performansının Belirlenmesi

Abstract

This study was carried out in the experimental orchards of Apricot Research Station between 2010-2011 years. In the investigation, it has been aimed to determine working performance of a fruit harvest platform,which is designed and whose prototype is made by the Agricultural Machines Department of the Agriculture Faculty atKahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University, in harvesting of apricot, apple and cherry. In this study, as a control group, byusing ladder classic harvest method which is common in the region was used.The experiments were made with Hacıhaliloğlu apricot variety, Dalbastı cherry variety and Granny Smith apple variety.In two harvest methods, were employed two groups of worker consisting of three people which have worked for one hourfor each fruit type with three repetitions. At the end of this duration, parameters were defined in terms of the harvestedfruit, fallen fruit, fruit remaining on the tree and spent time to change the position for fruit collecting. Furthermore, thepomological features of the harvested fruit were identified. According to the results, it was determined that harvested fruitamounts in apricot, apple and cherry in an hour, were respectively; 73.33 kg, 516 kg and 30.87 kg, in classic method and69.83 kg, 430.5 kg and 31.32 kg in fruit harvest platform. The loss of Harvest consisting of fallen fruit and fruit remainingon the tree, is found for apricot apple and cherry respectively as 5.73 kg, 8.06 kg and 11.37 kg in classic method and3.58 kg, 7.39 kg and 5.94 kg in fruit harvest platform. Spent time for changing the position which is one of the factors effectingharvest performance were determined as 1.5 minutes for apricot and cherry, 6 minutes for apple in classic methodand respectively 4 minutes, 15 minutes and 4.5 minutes in fruit harvest platform. As a result, it was determined that usingof fruit harvest platform does not increase the amount of collected fruit in each three fruits.

Özet

Bu çalışma, Malatya Kayısı Araştırma İstasyonu deneme bahçelerinde, 2010-2011 yıllarında yürütülmüştür. Çalışmada,