Vol. 9 (4) : July-August 2018 issue
Green Farming Vol. 9 (4) : 739-744 ; July-August, 2018
Design, development and performance evaluation of manually operated two row trolley tomato transplanter
KISHORSINH B. JHALA1*, PANKAJ V. THORAT2 and RAJESHKUMAR D. BANDHIYA3
Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Junagadh Agricultural University , Junagadh - 362 001 (Gujarat)
Designation : 1Associate Professor *(jhalakb1960@yahoo.com), 2,3Research Scholar
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
Paper No. : P-7343
Total Pages : 6
Received : 07 July 2018
Revised accepted : 23 July 2018
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Citation :
KISHORSINH B. JHALA, PANKAJ V. THORAT and RAJESHKUMAR D. BANDHIYA. 2018. Design, development and performance evaluation of manually operated two row trolley tomato transplanter. Green Farming Vol. 9 (4) : 739-744 ; July-August, 2018
ABSTRACT
The transplanter was designed on the basis of morphological parameters, agronomical requirements and ergonomical consideration for transplanting two rows (4 seedlings) at a time. The jaw is main operational part of vegetable transplanter which was fitted at the bottom of hollow delivery tubes (4 numbers) for transplanting. Maximum field efficiency of 86.68 % was obtained for 4 weeks age of seedlings on bare bed. In general effective field capacity was found as 0.014 ha/h for 6 weeks age of seedlings on mulch bed. Minimum cost of operation 3690.91 ?/ha for 6 weeks age of seedlings on mulch bed. Maximum cost for transplanting 1000 seedlings using the vegetable transplanter was observed to be ? 114.43 as against ? 156.38 when done manually. Assuming an annual use of transplanter as 250 h, the payback period was found as 926.74 hours or 3.71 years.
Key words :
Age of seedlings, Cost of operation, Field efficiency, Tomato transplanter, Types of bed.
