Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur-721302, West Bengal, India
Online published on 28 February, 2013.
The performance of tractor operated, 3-row multistage automatic vegetable transplanter was evaluated in the field using tomato seedlings at 60 45 cm spacing and at average forward speed 2 km h−1. Percent missed planting, percent tilted planting, seedling spacing in a row, depth of planting and plant mortality was found to be 4 to 5%, 8 to 9%, 45±1.5 cm, 7±1.5 cm and 3 to 4%, respectively. Field capacity of the transplanter was found to be 0.114 ha h−1 with field efficiency of 30.06%. Overall performance of the transplanter was found satisfactory.
Vegetable transplanter, Tomato, Seedlings, Plant Mortality, Seedling Spacing
