The development of a mushroom harvesting machine to increase yield and production while reducing waste and labour shortage risk

目前，新鲜蘑菇是人工密集养殖、采摘、修剪和包装的。人工修剪带来了秸秆根部的变异性，农民因不必要的重量和利润损失而损失高达10%的成本。实时精确的蘑菇称重，即切割和包装，意味着可以更准确地评估双核重量，并可将因超重容差而损失的利润减少高达10%。工人们忍受着手工采摘的痛苦，因为割伤双手和污染双关语的风险很高。这一点，再加上早上7点到晚上9点左右不合群的工作时间，导致农民面临劳动力短缺。Gamechanger蘑菇切割机将提供精确的蘑菇茎修剪，这将提高产量，并随后为农民带来利润。通过更好的工作时间和降低他们的角色风险，将为工人提供更好的工作条件。通过这个项目，将研究提高机器速度的能力，以及为蘑菇的个体重量和包装引入真空机制的有效性。

"Currently, fresh mushrooms are intensively farmed and picked, trimmed and packed manually. Manual trimming introduces variability to the base of the stalk which costs farmers up to 10% wastage through unnecessary loss in weight and profit. Accurate mushroom weighing in real time i.e. as cut and packed, means punnet weights can be more accurately assessed and profits lost through over-weight tolerances can be reduced by up to 10%. Workers suffer through manual picking as the risk of cutting their hands and contaminating the punnets is high. This, along with unsociable working hours of around 7am-9pm, causes farmers to face shortages of labour.The Gamechanger mushroom cutting machine will provide accurate trimming of mushroom stalks that will improve the yield, and subsequently profit, for the farmers. Improved working conditions will be provided for workers through better hours and de-risking their roles.The ability to increase the speed of the machine and the validity of introducing a vacuum mechanism for the individual weight and packing of the mushrooms will be investigated through this project."