Design, manufacture and field test of self-propelled vegetable seedling machine
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Vegetable planter design, machine testing, successful planting rate, actual productivityAbstract
The main objective of this study was to design, manufacture, and evaluate a semi-automatic vegetable planter. The designed planter consists of a main frame, seedling transport trays, a speed-controlled motor, a planting mechanism, a seedling burying mechanism, and a seedling burying mechanism. The planting mechanism plants the seedlings on the soil prepared in front of the planting mechanism, while the burying mechanism presses on the sides of the plant to bury it well. When the arms attached to the planting mechanism rotate, they receive the seedlings and plant them in the soil at specific distances between each seedling. A field test was conducted. The mechanical damage rate of the seedlings and the seedling spacing in the row were investigated. The tests were conducted using a factorial experiment based on a randomized complete block design with three replications. Treatments consisted of three forward speed levels: 0.85, 1.3, and 1.75 km/h/h, and three planting depths: 40, 80, and 120 mm. The results showed that the forward speed and planting depth affected the distance between the planted seedlings and the damage to the seedlings at the level.
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