"Mechanical harvesting" refers to the process of using machines or equipment to gather crops or plants instead of doing it manually.
Sentences with «mechanical harvesting»
If suitable equipment is available and affordable, then mechanical harvesting could be just what the industry needs to expand and keep up with demand for locally grown cider apples. (sciencedaily.com)
Mechanical harvesting equipment is then used between the rows to gently shake each bush, helping to release the ripe blueberries into catchers. (nuts.com)
SUN's effect dwarfs that of another shape gene called OVATE — yet another Tanksley discovery — and both seem to have been nurtured in Europe in the last several hundred years to ease mechanical harvesting and processing. (scientificamerican.com)