With the increasing application of Eucommia in the fields of food, health products and medicine, how to improve the collection efficiency without affecting the quality has become an urgent problem to be solved in the industry. Although traditional manual collection can carefully select high-quality leaves, its disadvantages such as low efficiency and high cost are becoming increasingly prominent. Nowadays, through the introduction of modern collection equipment and intelligent management systems, the efficiency of Eucommia leaf collection has been greatly improved.
Although the traditional manual collection method has a long history, it is difficult to adapt to the current market demand. Its advantage is that the picking is highly accurate and can effectively avoid leaf damage, which is particularly suitable for the collection of raw materials for small-scale high-end products. However, the disadvantages of this method are also obvious: it requires a lot of labor, the picking speed is slow, and it is easily affected by weather and human factors.
In order to break through this bottleneck, the industry began to turn to mechanized collection. Through a number of technological innovations, mechanical harvesting has greatly improved efficiency while ensuring quality:
1. Intelligent shearing system
The blade device adopts the bionic design principle, which can simulate manual picking actions, and cooperate with pressure sensing technology to accurately control the shearing force, effectively protecting the integrity of the leaves.
2. Intelligent grading technology
The equipment has a built-in grading and screening function, which can automatically classify according to leaf size and maturity, ensuring that high-quality leaves are harvested separately and reducing impurities.
3. Intelligent navigation system
Using AI navigation technology, the equipment can optimize the collection path according to the actual situation in the field, avoid repeated operations, and significantly improve work efficiency.
4. Data collection system
Real-time recording of environmental parameters such as temperature and humidity and collection data, providing a reliable basis for subsequent quality analysis and yield evaluation.
Actual application data shows:
● Manual collection: 15-20 kg/person per day, 95% effective ingredient retention rate, high cost
● Mechanical collection: 60-80 kg/person per day, 92% effective ingredient retention rate, low cost
To ensure the quality of mechanically collected leaves, a number of safeguards have been taken:
● Choose early morning or night for low-temperature picking to reduce photodegradation
● On-site screening and pre-drying treatment
● Establish a full traceability system to record data from the entire collection process
This innovation in collection methods marks an important step for the Eucommia industry to move towards modernization and standardization. In the future, with the continuous development of intelligent technology, Eucommia collection will usher in a new era of greater efficiency and precision.
