ABSTRACT
To overcome the problems of harvesting of lemon and orange, efforts are being made to develop a manual citrus fruit harvester for lemon and oranges so that the harvesting becomes easy. The chapter presents the details on the development of citrus harvesters. All the parts of the scissor type orange fruit harvester are the same as that of lemon harvester, the only difference is the diameter of the collecting pipe is 9 cm and the length is 90 cm. Trials of lemon harvesting were undertaken at Citrus Dieback, Central Research Station, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, and on farmer's field at Bordi, Tq. Akot, Dist Akola. On the basis of the heart rate data, lemon as well as orange harvesting by manual citrus harvester comes under the "moderate" category of work load, hence it is woman friendly and will also reduce the drudgery and time in harvesting of both lemon and oranges.
