Mushroom harvesting machine

Project Information

Grant agreement ID: QLK5-CT-2001-42509

Project closed

Start date 17 December 2001

End date 16 April 2002

Funded under

• Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Total cost € 30 000,00

EU contribution € 22 500,00

Coordinated by

ESOX TECHNOLOGIES SA.
France

Objective

Mushroom growing companies widespread in Europe. High quality mushrooms are still harvested manually. As a result of this, the harvesting cost is high. Piching mushrooms manually are very unhealthy labour. Because of this it is very hard to find people who are willing to do this work. Euro champ aims to develop mushroom harvesting machine, which will solve these problems. Using this machine, gravers can harvest mushrooms semi-continuously by which result in higher quality mushrooms. Because of the higher efficiency, the load of the environment will be strongly reduced. The project will be carried out by two machine builders (from the Netherlands and France) and at least two mushroom gravers (The Netherlands, France, Denmark, UK). Main deliverables are: a demonstrable functional prototype of a mushroom harvesting machine, containing a modular picking unit and a separate 3 D vision unit.

Programme(s)

• FP5-LIFE QUALITY - Specific Programme for research, technological development and demonstration on "Quality of life and management of living resources", 1998-2002

Topic(s)

• 1.1.1.-5. - Key action Sustainable Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry

Call for proposal

Data not available

Funding Scheme

EAW - Exploratory awards

Coordinator

ESOX TECHNOLOGIES SA.

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Rue de la Fonderie 2 ; 44477 CARQUEFOU ; France
• Total cost: No data

Participants (1)

HAVATEC B.V.

Netherlands

• EU contribution: No data
• Address: Pletterij 10 ; 2211 JT NOORDWIJKERHOUT
• Total cost: No data