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Originally Posted by Aubi7  Jatropha is a plant similar to olive so the harvest is difficult to mechanize...
Also it needs more harvests during the year because jatropha seeds don't ripen in the same period...
Today olive oil costs around 10 $/kg because of the required labour...
This is a real problem... |
There are plenty of mechanical olive harvester on the market.
The only problem with mechanization is that in old plantations particularly in Europe, the spacing between trees was done with manual labor in mind and the machines don't fit between the rows.
Plantations designed for mechanical harvest have no problems at all.