Abstract:
The necessity of mechanizing fruit and vegetable production as well as harvesting operations has greatly increased in Louisiana during the past five years and the need will become more acute during the next five if the state is to stay competitive. As the cost of labor increases and the availability of good labor decreases, farmers raising horticultural crops must mechanize or else turn to other crops that have already become mechanized and thus require a minimum of labor for their production.
Mechanization has been a favorite item of discussion among all agriculturalists for many years. We are now at a point where it must be more than a topic of conversation. WE MUST MECHANIZE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE. The accomplishment of this task is not solely the responsibility of the designers and builders of farm machinery; it is the obligation of everyone working with agricultural products.
Keywords:
mechanization, horticultural crop production
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