Stone pine (Pinus pinea L.) cone harvesting in Portugal continues to occur trough the traditional way, that is, by specialized workers that climb the trees and remove the cones by hand using special tools.
Here we intend to document photographically this traditional knowledge, present the various tools used by cone pickers in the harvesting process and the materials used to build them. This information can be potentialy usefull in other coutries were cone harvesting is made by small, locally operating family firms.
Manual cone harvesting of Pinus pinea in Portugal: equipment used and recommendations
- Category: Wild Nuts & Berries
- Themes: Improvement of the working conditions and training
- Position in the value chain: Harvesting
- Type: Practice
- Scale: National
- Country: Portugal
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- Keywords: equipment, forest nuts, Pinus pinea L., wild harvested
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