Pruning systems to adapt traditional olive orchards to new integral harvesters

Olive harvesting and pruning are two operations that highly influenced olive growing costs and competitiveness. Both operations should be related to reach an efficient orchard management. Tree structure should be adapted to selected harvesting method, but it also has to be in accordance with tree and orchard features. This research attempts to assess how traditional olives could be adapted to harvesting with canopy shakers, measuring different...