Advantages

The knocked down fruits fall on the sheets and don’t touch the ground, reaching the mill with less impurities or dirt, obtaining a higher quality crop. This aspect should be taken into account in the olive harvesting, because olives are usually divided in two categories: direct from the tree or from the ground.

• Olives directly harvested from the tree will have better performance, since they have not rolled between rocks and sand, therefore reducing the probability of damaging the fruit skin.
• Olives harvested from the ground may lose quality during the contact with stones and sand because the breaking of the skin initiates the degradation process directly in the olive grove.