How do you harvest orenges in a large plantation?

Question

How do you harvest orenges in a large plantation?

Answer 1

they grow on trees, so raise a tree and then u have oranges:)

put the tree where its not scorching hot but where it can have sun!

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Just hire workers, or pay your neighbors' kids to do the work, they will be happy to do it for money!

Or some of you nieces or nephews or your friends' children:)

Hope that Helps and Good Luck

♥ Bella ♥

Answer 2

Sounds racist (and I'm not) but it's probably the closest thing to the truth. Harvesting oranges on a large plantation requires a large number of Mexicans. The fruit has to be hand picked to limit damage, and to ensure ripe fruit is being harvested. I suppose you could use a tree shaker like they use on large pecan groves but you'd be shaking green fruit off the tree as well. In my experience a labor force willing to work in those conditions are almost always Mexican. Sorry I don't mean to offend anybody.

Answer 3

In the early days of the orange industry, harvesters climbed ladders and pulled the fruits off by hand, putting them into pails or shoulder-sacks which they later emptied into 90-lb (40.8 kg) field boxes. From 1900 to 1940, they used clippers. With the erstwhile shortage and increased cost of field labor, various changes and improvements have been made in harvesting methods. Pulling is again practiced, especially with fruits destined for processing. In the United States, Federal regulations and the individual state Department of Agriculture and state Citrus Commission control the stage of maturity at which the fruits may be picked and the grading of the fruits for marketing and shipping.

In anticipation of drastic increases in the cost of conventional harvesting, various methods of wholly or partly mechanized harvesting have been explored, including limb and tree shakers and air jets. Devices developed are not being widely utilized as yet because of the investments necessary for their acquisition and the current availability of manual labor. Manual picking is less laborious now that oranges for processing can be allowed to fall on the ground instead of being placed in sacks which have to be carried down ladders. The efficiency of hand-harvesting has been enhanced also by the use of fiberglass ladders and abscission agents which make it possible to pluck the fruit with less force and consequently greater speed. Good workers who have harvested oranges at the rate of 6.5 boxes per hour are now able to pick 9.1 boxes per hour. The effectiveness of the abscission agent depends largely on the lapsed time after spray-application and the prevailing temperature and relative humidity during that period.