The South African sugar industry harvests in excess of 20 million tons of sugarcane annually. More than 90% of this tonnage is currently being harvested manually. During 2002, the South African Sugar Association Experiment Station’s Agricultural Engineering Department conducted a comprehensive cane cutter survey throughout the South African and Swaziland sugar industries. The primary objective ...

Picrorhiza kurroa Introduction Picrorhiza kurroa is a well-known herb in the Ayurvedic system of medicine and has traditionally been used to treat disorders of the liver and upper respiratory tract, reduce fevers, and to treat dyspepsia, chronic diarrhea, and scorpion sting. It is a small perennial herb from the Scrophulariaceae family, found in the Himalayan region growing at elevations of 3,0...

Many authors have noted that consumer confidence in buying fresh flowers is strongly related to their perceived value in that quality and vase life must be high and consistent over time for consumers to repeat buy. Growers, wholesalers, exporters and retailers seek practical information about recommended handling and treatments at the harvest and postharvest stages, including that relating to f...

The chemical composition and the particle size distribution of 37 maize silages produced in north-west of Portugal were determined. Mean dry matter (DM), crude protein (CP), neutral detergent ®bre (NDF) and starch were 288 33, 81 9, 502 45 and 229 54 g kgÿ1 DM, respectively. Particle size was determined by manual separation of fresh silage into three fractions: material >30 mm in length; materi...

At present, Camellia oleifera fruit harvesting relies on manual labor with low efficiency, while mechanized could result in bud damage because flowering and fruiting are synchronized. As a prerequisite, rapid detection identification urgently needed for high accuracy efficiency simple models to realize selective intelligent harvesting. In this paper, lightweight algorithm YOLOv5s-Camellia based...

Yield loss of ratoon crops caused by the rolling damage to left stubble from mechanically harvesting main has been reported in previous studies. However, limited attention paid identify effect mechanical crop on yield a non-rolled zone (NRZ) crop. A two-year field experiment rice with two harvest methods (mechanical harvesting: MEH; manual MAH) was conducted whether there is border NRZ, and eva...

The manual seeding, harvesting and processing operations are the most labour intensive current practices have many drawbacks. physical properties of seeds play an important role for designing or fabricating toolsor devices which meant various crop management operations. Therefore, maize such as mass, geometric mean diameter, arithmetic sphericity projected areas length, width thickness were stu...

objective: to investigate the correlation between lower and higher order sensory functions and manual dexterity as well as to identify the sensory measures that could predict manual dexterity in patients with idiopathic parkinson’s disease (pd). materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 55 patients with idiopathic pd by mean age of 59.85 ± 11.89 years, and mean hoehn and yahr stage ...