Determining the Field Performance and Cost Analysis of Walk Behind Type Semi-Automatic Hand Feed Vegetable Transplanter

Year 2017, Volume: 13 Issue: 3, 149 - 154, 26.12.2017

Erdem Aykas , Ramazan Cengiz Akdeniz , Fırat Kömekçi Ceren Kömekçi

Abstract

This study was
carried out to determine field performance of walk behind type semi-automatic
hand feed vegetable transplanter with one row. Experiments were conducted in
region of Menderes, Bayındır, Torbalı and Çeşme in İzmir. During the experiments,
walk behind type semi-automatic hand feed vegetable transplanter with one row
(WBM) was compared with tractor mounted semi-automatic hand feed transplanter
with three-row (TMM) and hand planting (CP) widely used in the regions
aforementioned above. Plant spacing, depth of planting and holding force to
soil of tomato and pepper seedlings planted with WBM, TMM and CP were measured
and take-root rates of these seedlings were calculated. In addition to field
capacity of WBM, TMM and CP, total cost analysis of WBM, TMM and CP were
comparatively given with fuel consumption of WBM and TMM. 

Keywords

Walk behind type planter

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