Journal of Biosystems Engineering

Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery (한국농업기계학회)
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Development of a Mechanical Harvesting System for Red Pepper(I) - Surveys on Conventional Pepper Cultivation and Mechanization of Pepper Harvesting -

고추 기계수확 시스템 개발(I) - 고추 재배, 수확실태 조사 -

  • Choi, Young (National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Jun, Hyun-Jong (National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Lee, Chung-Keun (National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Lee, Chae-Sik (National Academy of Agricultural Science) ;
  • Yoo, Soo-Nam (Dept. of Rural & Bio-systems Eng., Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Suh, Sang-Ryoung (Dept. of Rural & Bio-systems Eng., Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Chonnam National University) ;
  • Choi, Young-Soo (Dept. of Rural & Bio-systems Eng., Institute of Agricultural Science and Technology, Chonnam National University)
  • Received : 2010.08.31
  • Accepted : 2010.10.08
  • Published : 2010.12.25
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Abstract

Consumption of pepper, a major spice vegetable used for seasoning Kimchi, continues to increase, but cultivation is in decline due to shortage of rural labor in Korea. The 39.2% of total labor requirement for conventional pepper cultivation was available for harvesting work. Therefore conventional manual harvesting should be turned to mechanical harvesting for labor-saving, cost-reducing and easy work. Surveys on conventional pepper cultivation patterns, labor requirements for various pepper cultivation works, and farmers' opinions on the mechanization of pepper harvesting were conducted to obtain basic informations. The labor requirement for pepper harvesting was 954 h/ha out of a total labor requirement of 2,436 h/ha for pepper cultivation. Harvesting was the hardest work, and hiring workmen for harvesting was also difficult. Farmers preferred to develop a small-scale pepper harvester using agricultural tractor or cultivar. Most farmer agreed to change cultivation pattern for mechanization of pepper harvesting, but hesitated to adopt new one-time-harvesting pepper varieties.

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