Monopotassium phosphate for olive fruit abscission
World olive production covers 9.5 × 106 ha and yields 2.5 × 106 t of olive oil and 1.25 × 106 t of table olives annually (IOOC, 2002). For both oil and table production, harvest represents a critical expense to the farmer, costing as much as 50% of total crop value. Particular difficul- ties are encountered in the case of immature green fruits, harvested for table olives or to obtain high-quality oil, where the efficiency of mechanical harvesting by trunk vibration is particularly low due to high fruit retention force and small fruit size.
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| Format: | artículo biblioteca |
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American Society for Horticultural Science
2004
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/250956 |
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