course technologies for growing medicinal and aromatic plants

HARVESTING MEDICINAL PLANTS
AGRO-TECHNICS OPERATING REQUIREMENTS
The main agro-technical requirements imposed on crop agriculture and harvesting equipment for
mechanization of work within the technologies for harvesting and transport of medicinal and
aromatic plants are:
•area to be harvested must be well leveled, cleaned of anthills, woody vegetation, piecese of
wood, rocks and other obstacles or foreign bodies;
•normal meteorological conditions during work (normal soil moisture, no precipitation, etc.);
•working parts of cars, machinery and tractors aggregation do not get the medicinal plants dirty
with soil;
•Wheels of the harvesters or technical equipments or aggregation tractors must not cross over
plants that have not been harvested yet;
• while working, equipments must copy the variation in level considering the width and direction
of work;
• not to produce additional chopping of plants (fragments less than 10 cm in length), the
maximum allowed is 1%;
•not to put pressure on plants while they are in the transport means;
• not to infest with impurities the already harvested plants.