Abstract:
Date Palm is one of major fruit crops of the Arab countries. Presently, the
date growers are facing the problem of lack of skills workers during the period of
pollination, which consists of climbing the date palm trees and putting the male
strand in female flower (Manual pollination) and also some farmers lift their higher
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date trees without pollination. . To resolve these problems, the mechanical
.pollination may be an interesting alternative to manual pollination
This equipment pollinator was designed to pollinate higher trees of date palm
as one of solution for the above problem. The pollinator was designed in DALL
Workshop Company and Agricultural Engineering Workshop in College of
Agricultural in Sudan University of Science and Technology. The suitable factors to
evaluate the equipment include equipment height, area spray, time pollination,
distance spray, and total cost. The results of the performance test for previous
factors when compared with manual pollination show that the pollinator has high
efficiency, hence it can pollinated about 276 date palm trees in one hour while
manual pollination only 4.6 date palm trees. The pollinator has changeable height
that permits to do operation to different height trees till maximum height of 7.5 m,
.(and finally the total cost for one unit 500 Sudanese Pound(100$
