The harvest of coffee, manual or mechanical, causes damage to the plants in several ways. Such damage manifests negatively in the following harvest, increasing the bienniality of coffee. Therefore, the aim of this work 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 ...

Brazil is the largest producer of sugarcane and its by-products in the world. For the 2020/21 harvest, sugarcane crushing in Brazil was 657,433 thousand tons, with the North-Northeast region responsible for 7.9% and the ...

Assuming that the work is the central category in the production process, the relationship between the recent modernization, in special in the harvesting activities, and the manual harvesting work intensification were ...

Mechanized harvesting of coffee in the crop's first harvest has restrictions on its use. There are assumptions that this type of harvesting can increase damage to plants and increase the amount of coffee falling on the ...

Performing more than one operation of coffee harvester can increase fruit harvest efficiency by minimizing the amount of remaining plants and the need for manual transfer. This manual harvest makes often more expensive the ...

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, ...

The objective of this work was to evaluate the soil physics and chemical attributes of Rhodic Ferralsol, in sugarcane systems harvest compared with soil forest. The treatments were consisted by native forest, manual and ...

Objetivou-se com esta pesquisa avaliar o efeito dos métodos de colheita sobre as perdas e os danos de colheita da cana-de-açúcar. As avaliações foram realizadas na variedade de cana IAC86-2480, de terceiro corte, no mês ...