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Kazmeinkhah K. Determination of Energetic and Ergonomic Parameters of a Semi-automatic Sugar-beet Steckling Transplanter. JAST 2007; 9 (3) :191-198
URL: http://jast.modares.ac.ir/article-23-7582-en.html
URL: http://jast.modares.ac.ir/article-23-7582-en.html
Agricultural Research Center, East Azarbaijan, Tabriz, Islamic Republic of Iran.
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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.
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Agricultural Machinery
Received: 2010/01/28 | Accepted: 2010/01/28 | Published: 2010/01/28
Received: 2010/01/28 | Accepted: 2010/01/28 | Published: 2010/01/28
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