Post by dividavi on Aug 19, 2022 19:13:41 GMT
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Fruit-picking drones can solve the farm labor shortage
These autonomous robotic pickers can harvest precisely and gently without tiring or needing a break.
By Brian Blum AUGUST 17, 2022, 10:03 AM
A Tevel Aerobotics FAR on the job in Italy. Photo courtesy of Tevel
Fruit rotting on trees or on the ground costs farmers some $30 billion in sales a year. Fruit picked even two weeks late loses 80 percent of its value.
A major reason for wasted produce: A global shortage of fruit pickers, estimated to grow to five million missing workers by 2050.
Even today, more than 10% of all fruit worldwide cannot be harvested – equivalent to the total annual consumption of fruit in the entire European Union.
Fruit-picking drones can solve the farm labor shortage
These autonomous robotic pickers can harvest precisely and gently without tiring or needing a break.
By Brian Blum AUGUST 17, 2022, 10:03 AM
A Tevel Aerobotics FAR on the job in Italy. Photo courtesy of Tevel
Fruit rotting on trees or on the ground costs farmers some $30 billion in sales a year. Fruit picked even two weeks late loses 80 percent of its value.
A major reason for wasted produce: A global shortage of fruit pickers, estimated to grow to five million missing workers by 2050.
Even today, more than 10% of all fruit worldwide cannot be harvested – equivalent to the total annual consumption of fruit in the entire European Union.
