Abstract:
Mechanical Pollination of date palms was mostly developed where labor is
expensive and not always available . It is estimated that Labor must Climb a date
palm several times from the time of pollination through to crop harvesting. Which
may cause breakage or death some time.
The present Pollinator was designed to pollinate date palm trees have rage
between (3-10) m.
The designed Pollinator was fabricated from local materials, at Agricultural
Engineering Department workshop of Agricultural Studies College - Sudan
University of Science and Technology. It was checked at the workshop, and tested
at the orchard of Agricultural Studies Collage, by compared with manual
pollination.
The results indicated that: -
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Dates yield of manual pollination was 95%, while that of mechanical
Pollination was 99.2% compared to the average time ratio for one date
palm tree pollination manually and mechanically was (13:1) minuets.
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The average quantity of pollen grains used for one date palm tree pollinate
manually was 50 grams, while that used for mechanical pollination was 14
grams.
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The total conclusion cost of one equipment was found to be about 300
Sudanese pounds (SDG)
