Determination of Energetic and Ergonomic Parameters of a Semi-automatic Sugar-beet Steckling Transplanter | ||
| Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology | ||
| Article 2, Volume 9, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 191-198 PDF (276.32 K) | ||
| Author | ||
| K. Kazmeinkhah* | ||
| Agricultural Research Center, East Azarbaijan, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Manual planting of sugar-beet stecklings is a very laborious and time-consuming opera-tion. To overcome the problems, and decrease the cost of operation to a reasonable level, a semi-automatic steckling transplanter was designed. The suitability of the steckling trans-planter with regard to the agrotechnical requirements of sugar-beet stecklings was stud-ied and the main field performance parameters of the machine were measured. The re-sults showed that the transplanter was able to place the stecklings with a row spacing of 65 cm and a plant spacing of 50.3 cm at a selected depth of 13 cm. Deviations of the steck-ling placements relative to their theoretical positions were 4.5 % and 3.6 % along the row and in a direction perpendicular to the row respectively. For a forward speed of 0.6 km/h and a maximum planting depth (18 cm), the required draft was 4.05 kN. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Semi-automatic; Steckling; Sugar-beet; Transplanter | ||
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