Development and Evaluation of Tractor Operated Vegetable Transplanter

作者：Manes G S^*; Dixit A K; Singh Surendra; Sharda A; Singh K

来源：AMA-Agricultural Mechanization in Asia Africa and Latin America, 2010, 41(3): 89-92.

Vegetables are a major source of protective foods in human nutrition Also the cultivation of vegetables is one of the options to shifting from a rice-wheat rotation One of the major hindrances in vegetable cultivation is transplanting of seedlings which requires lot of labour (244-310 man (h)/ha) Vegetables crops are sensitive and require a very timely operation The imported machines are quite sophisticated and costly So a two row semi-automatic transplanter having a picker wheel type metering mechanism has been developed and evaluated It can transplant wash-root type seedlings of vegetables like cauliflower, tomato and chillies on the beds as well as flat fields The plants missing were about 2 to 3 percent at a speed of about 0 8-1 0 km/h depending upon the plant to plant spacing and skill of operator Plant mortality and yield was comparable with the manual transplanting There is a savings of about 70-80 percent in labour requirement in comparison to manual transplanting, depending upon crop spacing

• 出版日期2010