Technical and economic assessment of two harvesting tools for young Elaeis oleifera x E. guineensis oil palms

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dc.creatorElizabeth Ruiz Álvarez
dc.creatorJhon Banguera
dc.creatorWilson Pérez Toro
dc.creatorJuan Hernández Hernández
dc.creatorJavier Arévalo
dc.creatorMauricio Mosquera Montoya
dc.date2020
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T02:44:26Z
dc.descriptionThe harvest of oil palm fruit bunches represents 25% of the total cost of production of one metric ton of fresh fruit bunches (FFB), and nine-tenths of the costs of this process (i.e., harvest) are labor costs. This study was undertaken to analyze and compare the labor productivity and harvesting costs of young oil palm trees of the species Elaeis oleifera x E. guineensis (OxG) using two different cutting tools. The first tool was a chisel, and the second was a mechanized oil palm cutter. From a methodological perspective, we conducted a time and motion study. The results show that the average number of palms harvested by a worker using a chisel was 320 per workday (on average 291 fresh fruit bunches were cut per workday). A worker using a mechanized oil palm cutter (MOPC) harvested 546 palms per workday (on average 551 fresh fruit bunches were cut per workday). Finally, the cost per ton of fresh fruit bunches (FFB) harvested decreased by 15% following the MOPC; in other words, the implementation of this novel technology is cost-effective.
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dc.identifier0120-9965
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=180376042013
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/journal/1803/180376042013/
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dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/journal/1803/180376042013/180376042013.epub
dc.identifierhttps://www.redalyc.org/journal/1803/180376042013/movil
dc.identifier10.15446/agron.colomb.v38n3.85303
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/422381
dc.languageen
dc.publisherUniversidad Nacional de Colombia
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=1803
dc.rightsAgronomía Colombiana
dc.sourceAgronomía Colombiana (Colombia) Num.3 Vol.38
dc.subjectAgrociencias
dc.titleTechnical and economic assessment of two harvesting tools for young Elaeis oleifera x E. guineensis oil palms
dc.typeartículo científico

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