Development and Field Testing of a New Chinese Chive Harvester

Harvesting Chinese chives is hard work that requires bending over at the waist, which can cause back pain, so the development of labor-saving machinery is expected. Therefore, various harvesting robots have been developed in recent years and have achieved a certain level of labor-saving effect, but more efficient harvesting machines are still desired. The IoP project in Kochi Prefecture has developed a Chinese chives harvester that can harvest 1.6[m] hilling width Chinese chives in batches, aiming to realize light labor and high-speed harvesting. This report outlines the system and describes the results of field tests.