MANUFACTURE AND EVALUATION PERFORMANCE OF A GARLIC-CLOVES PLANTER | ||||
| Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering | ||||
| Article 5, Volume 5, Issue 10, October 2014, Page 1389-1404 PDF (768.05 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/jssae.2014.49753 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| A.F. Abdrabo; M. El-Baily; Safya M. El-Gayar | ||||
| Agric. Eng. Res. Inst. (ARC), Giza, Egypt | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| The aim of this investigation is to locally manufacturing and evaluate a one row garlic-cloves planter. Field experiments were carried out in salty clay loam soil at the experimental farm of Sakha, Agricultural Research Station Kafr El–Sheikh Governorate. The manufacturing garlic-cloves planter consists of the main frame with three hitching-points, transmission system, two slot weapon planning, feeding device to cover garlic cloves and one-row planting unit. It consists of clove box, vertical disk containing cells of agriculture (A) or (B). cell (A) is a parallelogram dimensions of 4, 2.5 and 2 cm length, width and height, respectively, and closed its aspects except the front side and the front half of the surface and cells (B) is a half-cylindrical shape of 4 cm length, 2 cm radius and closed from the rear side. Small agitators were fixed inside the clove box and operated by means of pulley and V-belt powered from planting disc and ground wheel and transmission shaft to planting disc. The investigated variables of this study were; four different forward planting speeds ( 2.5, 3.2, 4.1 and 5.4 km/h), two various types of cell (A and B) and three different depths of planting (1.5, 4.0 and 6.0 cm). The performance was fudged by missing hills percentage (%), germination percentage (%), productivity (ton/fed), longitudinal scattering (cm), field capacity (fed/h), energy consumed (kW.h/fed) and total cost estimate (L.E./fed). The experimental results reveal that the lowest value of missing hills percentage of garlic was 2.0% which achieved with cell type A at forward speed of 2.5 km/h. The highest value of productivity was (8.55 ton/fed) also obtained with cell type A at forward speed of 2.5 km/h. and planting depth 4 cm. The minimum value of field capacity 0.4 fed/h was recorded at forward speed of 2.5 km/h, and planting depth of 6 cm . The maximum energy consumed of 25.75 kW.h/fed was recorded at forward speed of 2.5 km/h, planting depth of 6 cm. The minimum value of total cost 36.43 L.E./fed was obtained at forward speed of 5.4 km/h, and planting depth of 1.5 cm . Finally, it is recommended to applya garlic-cloves planter using cell (A), depth of planting 4 cm and forward planting speed 2.5 km/h to achieve the maximum germination percentage and the highest value of productivity. | ||||
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