The asparagus is here!

Asparagus is one of the most popular spring vegetables: Every German consumes an average of 1.7 kilograms of asparagus a year. The harvest of the tasty sticks is exhausting, time-consuming and costly. The agricultural harvest of the white poles begins as soon as the first shoots break through the crest of the dam. This requires skilled manual work. The asparagus spears must be dug up and "pricked". The hole must then be closed again. Traditionally, the asparagus season ends on St. John's Day, 21 June. 

In the future, an invention by ai-solution could make farmers' work much easier and improve the harvesting efficiency of the noble vegetable: The Kirpy harvester picks up the entire asparagus dam with the stalks and cuts them to the right length. Subsequently, the noble vegetables only have to be removed from the belt and packaged. However, the new process not only improves the quality of the asparagus spears, but also the quality of the fields, because the machine loosens and cleans the soil.

Phases of the harvesting process
 

Step 1

The innovative asparagus harvester Kirpy no longer concentrates on cutting off individual asparagus spears, but picks up the entire dam 6 to 8 cm above the root surface in one cut.

Step 2

Then soil and asparagus are gently conveyed via a sieve chain, shaken and separated.

Step 3

The asparagus is then collected by hand on a sorting belt by experienced harvesters, sorted and stored in boxes behind the machine on the collection platform.

Step 4

In the machine, the earth is separated from stones and other impurities. Finally, a perfect dam is reshaped and rebuilt.