Efficient harvesting of Japanese blue honeysuckle

Engineering in Agriculture, Environment and Food

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-17

  Fu, Longsheng ^a   Okamoto, Hiroshi ^a   Hoshino, Yoichiro ^a   Esaki, Yuu ^b   Kataoka, Takashi ^a   Shibata, Youichi ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kinotoya Farm Co Ltd   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cleaning; Collecting; Haskap; High efficiency; Low cost; Separating

Indexed keywords

CLEANING; COSTS; EFFICIENCY; FRUITS; HARVESTING; PLASTIC PIPE; SEPARATION;

COLLECTING; HASKAP; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; LOW COSTS; SEPARATING;

COLLECTOR EFFICIENCY;

EID: 79954514317     PISSN: None     EISSN: 18818366     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1881-8366(11)80003-0     Document Type: Article

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