Guide to Efficient Olive Harvesting

Published by RIRDC, October 2008. Author: Leandro Ravetti. The manual presents optimal harvest efficiency options for the full range of mechanisation and scales of operation experienced by growers in the Australian environment – from hand harvesting to large scale operations. It also provides information on the theory and practice of harvest efficiency, including the physiology of the olive tree, grove design and management and the range of options of mechanisation.