New mango harvester for reducing drudgery and harvesting losses


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Authors

  • A K Verma ICAR-Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehamankhera, Post-Kakori, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226 101
  • Gopal Carpenter ICAR-Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehamankhera, Post-Kakori, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226 101
  • P S Gurjar ICAR-Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehamankhera, Post-Kakori, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226 101
  • Maneesh Mishra ICAR-Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehamankhera, Post-Kakori, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226 101
  • S Rajan ICAR-Central Institute for Subtropical Horticulture, Rehamankhera, Post-Kakori, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh 226 101

Abstract

Mango is generally harvested by shaking and beating of branches which causes cracking and bruising of fruits, which results in about 8-10% losses at farm level. ICAR-CISH, Lucknow has developed a light-weight, user friendly mango harvester for reducing drudgery and harvesting losses. Fruit loss was observed to be 40% less with new harvester as compared with the old metallic harvester.

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Submitted

2021-10-26

Published

2021-10-26

Issue

Vol. 66 No. 4 (2021)

Section

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How to Cite

Verma, A. K., Carpenter, G., Gurjar, P. S., Mishra, M., & Rajan, S. (2021). New mango harvester for reducing drudgery and harvesting losses. Indian Horticulture, 66(4). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IndHort/article/view/117202