Development, Fabrication and Evaluation of Semi-Automatic Field Crop Transplanter

Abstract

 Abstract: Increase the area allocated for field crops cultivation requires moving from manual agriculture to mechanical farming. of 0.3, 0.4 and 0.5 km h -1 under actual field conditions in terms of plant spacing, planting depth, and missing plant index. The transplanter precisely plants seedlings into ground. The effect of seedling height on the planting depth was found to be significant. In addition, plant missing percentage increased with increasing of forward speed. optimization of seedling-feeding device for automatic maize transplanter with maize straw seedling-sprouting tray. The aim of this study is development, fabrication and evaluation semi-automatic field crop transplanter. Performance evaluation of the transplanter was carried out for transplanting of 20-25, 25-30, and 30-35 cm corn seedlings at three forward speed levels