Research of technological process of harvesting and post-harvest processing of potatoes

When harvesting potatoes, regardless of the means of mechanization used, digging up potatoes from the soil, separating tubers from the ground are mandatory operations. At the same time, a number of factors affect the quality performance of these operations - the humidity and soil contamination, the design and operation of the working parts of the potato digger and the separator. To substantiate the latter, it is necessary to study the technological process on the basis of mathematical modeling. Modeling and researching the process of harvesting and post-harvest processing of potatoes and the interaction of tubers with each other and the working bodies can justify the conditions for reducing damage and reducing overall costs, since the costs of harvesting and post-harvest processing are also closely related to losses in harvested crops. Research has shown that the efficiency of harvesting and post-harvest processing of potatoes is more influenced by the price of product sales. Analysis of the dependence of the cost of harvesting and post-harvest processing of potatoes per unit of area, yield in monetary terms and process efficiency on a probabilistic indicator of the quality of technological operations performed shows that production, in addition to the cost of implementation, is also affected by the implementation of technological operations, machine complex and technology, selected by its working bodies.

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