Mechanization Efforts in Fruit Harvesting

Stavros Vougioukas, Manoj Karkee, Stephen Devadoss, R. Karina Gallardo and Diane Charlton

Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm, and Resource Issues, 2025, vol. 40, issue 2

Abstract: Labor is an essential and costly input in fruit production since many cultivation practices (e.g., harvesting, pruning, thinning, fertilizing, and chemical spraying) are still mainly performed by hand (Gallardo and Sauer, 2018; Karkee, Silwal, and Davidson, 2018). Labor expenditures comprise about 38.5% of the variable costs in fruit production in the United States (Castillo et al., 2021).

Keywords: Crop Production/Industries; Labor and Human Capital; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.356842

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