1Division of Agricultural Engineering, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Jammu (SKUAST-Jammu), Jammu-180 009, India
2Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Moga-142 001, India
Farm Machinery & Power Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana-141 004, India
*E-mail: ankitsharma@pau.edu
Online published on 22 September, 2023.
The biometric attributes such as seedling length, weight, plug compactness, stem and spread diameter of 25-, 32-, and 40-days old tomato plug seedlings relevant to the design and selection of various components of vegetable transplanter were investigated. The seedlings were grown in pro-trays having truncated square pyramid (104 cells) and right circular cone (98 cells) shape cells. The seedling length and plug compactness were more in truncated square pyramid cells pro-tray whereas seedlings' weight, stem diameter, and spread diameter were more in truncated right circular cone cells pro-tray. The maximum seedling length and plug compactness score were 208 mm and 8.8 corresponding to truncated square pyramid cells and 40 days seedling age on the other hand maximum seedlings weight, stem diameter, and spread diameter was 10.57 g, 3.02, and 136 mm corresponding to truncated right circular cone and 40 days seedling age. With the increase in seedling age all of the selected attributes of tomato seedlings increased for both types of cells.
Attributes, Biometric, Cell, Pro-tray, Tomato
