Carrot Harvesting Methods: A Review

Abstract

Carrot harvesting is one of the critical operations and is done once the carrot is matured after 90 – 110 days. Carrots grow on ridges and are harvested after loosening from the soil surface and pulling out roots by grasping the top.  For harvesting carrots manually in one hectare, an average of 250 – 300 man-hours are required which is very expensive for farmers besides the quantum of labor, manual harvesting involves considerable drudgery and human discomfort. The experiment was conduct in 2021-22 at Junagadh agricultural university. During peak time sufficient labors are not available that delay the harvesting and thus result in damage and loss to crop. The harvesting operation of carrots needs to be mechanized for time-saving, reduce drudgery involved, and also reduce harvesting cost due to these, the crop is cultivated on small scale and is one of the main bottlenecks in bringing more area under the carrot cultivation. The large-scale diversification and reduction in the cost of cultivation in carrot crops are mainly possible through the mechanization of the carrot digging process. In this study considered parameters ware digging efficiency, damage percentage, picking efficiency, conveying efficiency and field efficiency. Parameters was statistically analyzed by factorial complete randomized design method.