WELCOME TO THE PALM Harvester PROJECT

WE'RE CUTTING FRUIT DOWN, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER




Introduction

Oil palm trees yield approximately 3.7 metric tons of palm oil per hectare annually. The current oil palm fruit harvesting involves a worker ascending a tree and manually cutting each fruit bunch. There are many disadvantages to this manual process. The fruit are suspended approximately 12 meters above the ground, which endangers the workers that climb the palm trees and causes fatigue. The scope of this project is to develop a device that can safely and easily harvest ripe oil palm fruit.