Fabricating and Evaluating Performance of a Planter Prototype for Planting Chinese Garlic Cloves

Faculty Agriculture Year: 2019
Type of Publication: ZU Hosted Pages: 605-612
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Journal: Journal of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Engineering Mansoura University, Faculty of Agriculture Volume: 10
Keywords : Fabricating , Evaluating Performance , , Planter Prototype , Planting    
Abstract:
The present study aimed to fabricate a two rows planter prototype with a new feeding device with a chain and spoons for planting Chinese garlic cloves. The performance of the planter prototype was evaluated under four levels of planting forward speeds of 1.2, 1.7, 2.2 and 2.9 km/h and two sizes of Chinese garlic cloves big and small. The results showed that the best forward speed about 1.7 km/h giving the actual field capacity of 0.19 and 0.2 fed./h, the field efficiency of 78 and 82 %, the specific energy requirement of 22.4 and 21.3 kW. h/fed., operating cost of 385 and 366.5 EGP/fed., the missing hills of 8 and 6 %, longitudinal scattering of 13.3 and 11.7 %, transverse scattering of 3.9 and 3.3 %, the double hills of 8 and 13 % by using big and small Chinese garlic cloves, respectively. It turns out that this prototype does not cause significant damage to the garlic cloves because it quietly and smoothly picks garlic from the bottom to up in the cloves hopper, does not exceed the damage rate 0.8 and 0.4 % when the size of cloves was big and small, respectively. The prototype saves about 81 % of cost compared with manual planting and saves the time of planting.
   
     
 
       

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