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Keywords: UK, agriculture<\/div>\n
Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board(AHDB)<\/div>\n
An AHDB Horticulture survey has revealed that 82 percent of UK growers believe recent developments in automation have helped reduce their reliance on labour.
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Growers also report key areas for future investment should be focused on harvesting and improvements within the pack-house.
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Areas of production with particularly high manual labour inputs \u2013 such as harvesting \u2013 are high priority for future research and investment. Nearly 60 percent of growers identify this as an area to focus on. Other responses highlighted a need for developments in transplanting and planting, crop monitoring, application of crop protection products (including biologicals), transport systems, grading and packing.
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Dr Debbie Wilson, AHDB\u2019s Head of Knowledge Exchange, said: \u201cLabour utilisation is a clear priority in our current strategy. It\u2019s critical that our activities complement rather than duplicate existing industry developments. That is what this survey was designed to help us investigate.
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\u201cMany growers look robotics as a solution to labour availability issues for the sector, although they recognise that new developments are likely to be long term. \u00a0Our plans in this area include identifying new ideas from international horizon scanning and sharing best practice. This is where AHDB will focus its effort alongside our labour efficiency and developing best practice in business management.\u201d
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The industry\u2019s commitment to further advance automation is clear. A third of respondents stated they have begun developing their own in-house solutions and a further third already involved in research and development projects.
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Dr Becky Turner, HortSolutions conducted the survey. He said: \u201cMost growers (80%) said they knew of some research into equipment that could be useful for their systems, from sensing technology and imaging analysis to moving robots and harvesting machinery. They were keenly following developments and wanted to see information shared by AHDB.\u201d
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The results show that the current use of available automation in the industry is high with the main recent advancements being achieved in transplanting\/planting, moving the crop and grading. The use of robotics is not so widespread. 32 percent of growers having what they described as some element of robotics in their system. The main area of use was for moving the product around on the holding.
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The full report is available on the AHDB Horticulture website<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n
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Source<\/strong>: AHDB Horticulture<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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