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Automatic protray conveying and dibbling system towards development of automatic protray seeder for vegetable nursery

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Title Automatic protray conveying and dibbling system towards development of automatic protray seeder for vegetable nursery
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Creator A. CAROLIN RATHINAKUMARI
G. SENTHIL KUMARAN
 
Subject Vegetable nursery, Step seeder, Automatic protray indexing, Crop nursery mechanization, Nursery machinery
 
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Quality and healthy seedling production is very important for successful vegetable
cultivation. Recent days hybrid vegetable seedlings are raised in protrays under protected
cultivation to ensure quality seedling production. Vegetable nursery raising is an upcoming
successful entrepreneurship area. Growing media filled protrays are dibbled and seeded manually.
This process is very tedious, labour intensive, time consuming and drudgery. Keeping this in view,
an automatic protray conveying, dibbling and seeding system was designed and developed. The
design and construction of automatic protray conveying and dibbling system is presented is this
paper. The machine was designed suitable for 98 protray cell (Protray dimension : 530 x 275 mm and
protray cavity matrix: 14 x 7 )(lengthwise x widthwise) which is widely used for vegetable nursery
raising. This system consisted of protray conveyor and indexing system, dibbling unit, penumatic
systems, electronic controls and programmable logic controller (PLC). The main conveyor shaft
was driven by a stepper motor and the stepper motor was driven by a micro-stepping drive with
3200 pulse/rev configuration. Each protray was detected by a sensor and indexed by determined
distance pre-programed of PLC. The function of dibbling unit was to make 10 mm dia. x 10 mm deep
depressions at the center of the each cell of the growing media filled protray. The dibbling unit was
a set of conically shaped tubular pegs arranged in a common bar. The stroke of the operation was
30 mm and indenting was 10 mm deep. Proximity sensor of PNP type was used for the dead end
limits of all motions and conveyor index. The sensors used were dibbling station home sensor,
dibbling station lower sensor, main conveyor indexing sensor and tray detection sensor. The
entire cycle was controlled by a logic programme and this synchronized the conveyor motion
(position/inching) with the dibbling system. This machine was able to index the growing media
protrays at the predetermined distance of 38.3 mm and to make uniform depth cavities. The dibbling
capacity was found to be 300 protrays/h
Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi
 
Date 2021-04-22T08:29:03Z
2021-04-22T08:29:03Z
2020-10-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/46631
 
Language English
 
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Publisher Hind Agri-Horticultural Society