K.V. Lohakare1, P.A. Munde2, R.D. Baghele*3, 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,
4 FMMTTC, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, VasantraoNaik Marathwada KrishiVidyapeeth, Parbhani, Maharashtra, India.
Received-06.01.2022, Revised-21.01.2022, Accepted-28.01.2022
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. Vegetable planter was tested in the field for evaluating performance of chilli, brinjal and tomato to assess their suitability at speed 1, 1.25 and 1.5 km/h.It was ergonomically evaluated for studying human engineering for operator. Randomly 6 subject selected whose anthropometric dimensions matches with the average dimensions (5th and 95th percentile) of the region for ergonomic evaluation and their mean heart rate and oxygen consumption found in ranged between 90.67 to 104.67 beats/min and 0.35 to 0.51 l/min respectively. Mean overall discomfort rating on a 10 point visual analoguediscomfort scale (0- no discomfort, 10- extreme discomfort ) was 3.0 and scaled as “light discomfort”.BPDR values ranged from 36.33 to 47.3 for all speed and subjects. Overall discomfort for all subject found to be light.
Keywords:nursery vegetable planter, field efficiency, germination percentage, overall discomfort, ergonomic evaluation
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