K.V. Lohakare1, P.A. Munde2, R.D. Baghele*3 and A.D. Harkal4
1 Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering,
2 Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering,
3 AICRP on Vegetable Crops, VNMKV, Parbhani,
4FMMTTC, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Krishi Vidyapeeth, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India
Received-08.01.2022, Revised-24.01.2022, Accepted-30.01.2022
Abstract: Nursery seedling production is depends on the variety of vegetables and its cultivation practices as well as bad seed emergence, lack of uniformity and weed infestation. Traditional sowing such as broadcasting, manually line sowing is non uniform distribution of seedwhich causes poor germination and uneven growth of seedling as well as labor and time consuming method.Nursery vegetable planter was designed and developed in dept. of FMPE, CAET, Parbhani.Four row vegetable planter was tested in the field and it was found average plant spacing of 2.27 cm, 2.26 cm and 2.40 cm, respectively for chilli, brinjal and tomato against the required spacing of 2.30cm at speed 1.25 km/h. The missing and multiple index were 14.35 % and 8.33 %for chilli, 15.27 % and 8.68 % for brinjal, 18.51 % and 8.79 % for tomato respectively. Effective field capacity of the developed planter was 0.045 ha/hwith field efficiency of 88.66 % for chilli.Cost of planting was 67.2 % less compared to traditional method.
Keywords:nursery vegetable planter, field efficiency, germination percentage, miss index, multiple index
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