Fruit Harvester

Function: Plucking of fruits from orchard trees.
Brief description:
The manually operated fruit harvester consists of main body of PVC having cylindrical shape. The upper end of the body is closed and fixed with two fingers cut in V-shape and with sharp blades. An opening is provided on the body for entry of the fruits to be harvested. The bottom end of the body is open to which nylon net for collecting the fruits is tied. On the back surface of the body a metal holder is fixed to fix the aluminum pipe of required length. The length of the cutting blade was increased from 30 mm to 70 mm to increase the comfort of the worker.
Capacity: 420 fruits/h

Benefits

• Damage to the fruit is avoided.
• Operation is made safer as the worker does not have to climb on the tree and the chances of
  injury are eliminated.

• College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Dr BSKKV, Dapoli, District Ratnagiri-415 712 (Maharashtra).
• Department of Farm Machinery, Agricultural Engineering College & Research Institute, TNAU, Coimbatore- 641 003.