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Development and evaluation of manually operated portray type nursery seeder

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Title Development and evaluation of manually operated portray type nursery seeder
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Creator Nandede BM, Solanki KR and Roul AK
 
Subject portray, media filling setup, vegetable seedlings, transplanting
 
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A low cost manually operated portrays type nursery seeder for sowing of vegetable seeds was developed and evaluated for its performance. It consisted of set of plates such as base plate, media firming-cum-watering plate, hole forming plate and set of seeding plates. The set-up is developed for sowing of 104 cells portrays (13 x 8 rectangular arrays). Experiment was conducted to identify the orifice size and plate thickness for sowing of vegetable seeds of chilli, brinjal and tomato in portrays. Performance parameters such as percent single, percent multiple, percent miss, singulation efficiency, seeding efficiency and seed utilization efficiency for 2 mm thick and 3.5 mm orifice diameter plate (CP4) for chilli was found to be 65.28, 29.38, 5.34, 69.10, 91.02 and 76.51%, respectively. Similarly, for 2 mm thick and 2.9 mm orifice diameter plate (BP4) for brinjal was found to be 78.21, 16.35, 5.45, 82.76, 90.91 and 85.61%, respectively. Moreover, for 2 mm thick and 3.5 mm orifice diameter plate (TP2) for chili was found to be 74.23, 21.35, 4.42, 77.76, 91.90 and 81.85%, respectively. Hence CP4, BP4 and TP2 were used for further evaluation of the setup. Total time saving with developed setup over traditional method was found to be 68% for all selected seeds. Cost of operation and labour saving was found in the range of 67-68% when compared with manual seeding by traditional method. Cost of the developed manually operated portray type nursery seeder is about Rs. 2000/- and weight is 15 kg.
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Date 2018-11-06T14:14:18Z
2018-11-06T14:14:18Z
2017-07-16
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Not Available
2277-7601
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/9636
 
Language English
 
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