Mid rift valley of east Shewa, Ethiopia is among the potential commercial irrigated intensive vegetable production areas [1] supplying a variety of vegetables to every corners of the country. Onion, tomato, maize, kale, hot pepper, watermelon, green bean and head cabbage are among the major vegetable crops widely produced for national and local markets. Okra, cucurbit and sweet melon are also c...

This research aims to develop an automatic tubing-grafting robotic system using soft rubber tubes as the grafting material that is suitable for the rootstock and scion of fruit-bearing vegetables having similar stem diameter, such as tomato, bitter melon, sweet pepper, etc. The experimental results indicated that the average grafting success rate is over 93.8% and the system has a working capab...

Sweet pepper is one of the most important nutritious vegetable and its demand increasing day by in Bangladesh indicating need to characterize assess morphological variability for varietal improvement programme. Twenty-one sweet genotypes from native alien sources were characterized twenty-six traits using vegetative reproductive appearances at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Agricultural Univ...

Sweet pepper is susceptible to changes in the environmental conditions, especially temperatures below 15 °C. In this work, two sets of pepper fruits (Capsicum annuum L.) which underwent distinct temperature profiles in planta were investigated. Accordingly, two harvesting times corresponding to each set were established: Harvest 1, whose fruits developed and ripened at 14.9 °C as average temper...

Obtaining agricultural products with better quality is closely related to the development of new cultivars. New cultivars are increasing gradually internationally as a result breeding programs. Capsicum annuum L. ‘A30706 F1’, ‘Kılçık ‘Bitter F1’ pepper newly developed registered in Turkey. A30706 F1 bitter and black coloured long also called purple coloured, Kılçık sweet thin Bitter hot pepper....

This study utilized a feed-forward neural network model along with computer vision techniques to discriminate sweet red pepper products prepared by different methods such as freezing and pureeing. The differences among the fresh, frozen and pureed samples are investigated by studying their bio-crystallogram images. The dissimilarity in visually analyzed bio-crystallogram images are defined as t...

Sweet pepper, though a highly remunerative vegetable, environmental variability and inappropriate transplanting date have resulted low yield in Terai. Hence, to identify the suitable under open net house environment, field research was conducted at Agriculture Forestry University, Rampur, Nepal, from October 2018 May 2019. A split-plot design used with two factors three replications. Main-facto...

In this paper, we present the lessons learnt during the development of a new robotic harvester (Harvey) that can autonomously harvest sweet pepper (capsicum) in protected cropping environments. Robotic harvesting offers an attractive potential solution to reducing labour costs while enabling more regular and selective harvesting, optimising crop quality, scheduling and therefore profit. Our app...