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Economics of Mechanical Tree Fruit Harvesters
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2017
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Mechanical fruit harvesters have been commercially available to New York growers for ten years. However, adoption of mechanical apple harvesters has been relatively slow because of (l) the availability of relatively inexpensive hand labor, (2) the lack of a suitable fresh fruit harvester, and (3) the wide variation in tree size, apple varieties, farm size and production practices which make operation of a mechanical harvester physically and/or economically infeasible.
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- Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , April 1977 , pp. 17 - 29
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- Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association