Open AccessInnovative mechanical technologies for agricultural and forest quality productions
Author(s) -
Gualtiero Baraldi,
Raffaele Cavalli
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
italian journal of agronomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.509
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 2039-6805
pISSN - 1125-4718
DOI - 10.4081/ija.2008.1s.155
Subject(s) - diversification (marketing strategy) , agriculture , business , work (physics) , agricultural machinery , quality (philosophy) , emerging technologies , tillage , product (mathematics) , process (computing) , agricultural engineering , environmental economics , engineering , computer science , marketing , economics , ecology , mathematics , mechanical engineering , philosophy , geometry , epistemology , artificial intelligence , biology , operating system
The quality of agricultural and forest products are related to the productive process in which innovative mechanical technologies are used. The innovation should be considered at product, process and enterprise level, the last one being considered as changes into enterprise organization, included services diversification. In the field of machinery used for agricultural products, from soil tillage to harvesting and post-harvesting processes the innovation dealing with products, but also with energy use, environmental protection, work safety has been important due to the mechanical technology output. In the forest sector working systems in which operations are carried out in totally mechanized way, with small turn to semi-mechanized operations, are growing. They are innovations that should change the relationship with young generation which could consider the mechanical technologies attractive for a working activity until now evaluated not much desiderable