Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Development of manually operated pull type paperpot transplanter for onion
Author(s): MJ Nayaka, AL Vadher and CS Matholiya
Abstract: India is the second largest producer of vegetables in the world next to China with a production of 169.47 million tons from an area of 9.54 million hectors. Vegetables are an important part of human diet and provide vitamins, proteins, minerals, carbohydrates and roughages. Onion is a major vegetable used in many different ways in daily diet. The demand for onions is worldwide. Onion growers are facing lot of problems in transplanting of onion seedlings with the shortage of farm labours during transplanting seasons. This transplanter was designed on the basis of ergonomical consideration for transplanting one row at a time. The main part of vegetable treansplanter is paperpot conveyer. For seedling rising papepot sheet is used. It decomposes in the soil during the season. The underside of the body has a furrow opener that creates a furrow, in which the seedlings are funneled into. Sweep and pressure wheel cover seedlings with plant. The theoretical field capacity in manual transplanting ranged from 0.002 ha/h against 0.0599 ha/h in mechanical transplanting. The effective field capacity of paperpot transplanter during experiment was 0.0246 ha/h whereas average field efficiency was 41.04 per cent. Traditional method, average manual transplanting rate was in the range of 8.57 to 10.59 seedlings-min-1-person-1 and the labor requirement was 400 man-h/ha. Whereas, in mechanical transplanting, the transplanting rate of paperpot transplanter 81.37 seedlings-min-1-person-1which leading to decrease in labor requirement.
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MJ Nayaka, AL Vadher, CS Matholiya. Development of manually operated pull type paperpot transplanter for onion. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):2790-2793.
