Sugarcane cultivation is important for the economy of many countries, particularly for Brazil. This plant has been used to produce sugar, ethanol, second generation ethanol, fertilizers, as well as bioelectricity. Due to ...

The mechanized operation of harvesting seeds demands that the adjustments of harvesters should be dynamic, which directly affects the quality of the operation and the harvested grain. Thus, the objective of this study was ...

The use of adapted harvesters for harvesting first-crop coffee requires a lower cost and exhibits a higher efficiency than manual harvesting. In view of this, the present study aimed to analyze the operational cost of ...

Japanese cornmint, also known as menthol mint (Mentha canadensis L. syn M. arvensis L.), is an essential oil crop cultivated in several countries in Asia and South America. The plant is currently the only commercially ...

Single-degree-of-freedom (SDOF) mechanical oscillators have been the most common type of generators used to harvest energy from mechanical vibrations. When the excitation is harmonic, optimal performance is achieved when ...

Brazil is the largest sugarcane producing country in the world. Mills usually operate nine months to process the sugarcane produced in the country. Here we investigated the effect of harvest time on the on-farm sugarcane ...

With the advent of wireless sensors, there has been an increasing amount of research in the area of energy harvesting, particularly from vibration, to power these devices. An interesting application is the possibility of ...

Information about the capacity of the operation, harvest efficiency and performance of the harvester are of great importance in the management of agricultural mechanized systems, assisting in the decisions to be taken by ...

The non-uniformity of coffee fruit maturation is an intrinsic plant condition that is not favorable for the beverage quality. This could be overcome by using the precision harvesting approach, wherein only the ripe fruits ...

Coffee farms have been adopting the microterraces system, a technique that reduces the effect of the slope by moving the soil between the crop lines. In this way, all the mechanized operations can be carried out normally, ...