[EN] Irrigation water use efficiency, the small size of the orchards, and part-time farmers are major issues for Spanish citriculture. How should irrigation water use efficiency be assessed? Does irrigation water use ...
Ortiz Sánchez, María Coral; Torregrosa, A.; Castro-García, Sergio(MDPI, 2022-06)
[EN] The profitability of fresh citrus crops outlines the possibility of using mechanical systems to reduce the high cost of the manual harvesting operation. In this line, an experimental light shaker with low frequency ...
Ortiz Sánchez, María Coral; Torregrosa, A.; Castro-García, Sergio(MDPI AG, 2021-11-04)
[EN] A designed lightweight experimental shaker successfully used to collect ornamental oranges has been tested to harvest fresh market citrus. The aim of this study was to evaluate the removal efficiency and operational ...
Ortiz Sánchez, María Coral; Torregrosa, A.; Martínez, Jose Miguel(MDPI, 2022-06)
[EN] The increase of the technology level of citrus production operations is required to improve production profitability and reduce production costs. In the framework of the project CITRUSTECH ("Technological advances for ...
Puerto, Herminia; Mora, Miguel; Roig-Merino, Bernat; Abadía-Sánchez, Ricardo; Cámara-Zapata, José María; Suay, Ricardo; Rocamora, Carmen(MDPI, 2021-09)
[EN] Over the last three decades, a great investment effort has been made in the modernization of irrigation in the Valencian Community (Spain). The initial change from distribution networks to pressurized ones and the ...
[EN] This dataset presents data collected from joint cropland management practices survey in agri-food cooperatives of Mediterranean Spanish Regions. The objective was to examine to what extent cooperatives offer joint ...