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Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils

Sweet potato cultivation is labour intensive and needs mechanization to reduce labour and drudgery of the farmer in the planting operation. In this study, an imported doublerow planter developed for vegetable planting was modified and tested on mineral and bris soils. Preliminary results gave a fiel...

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Main Authors: Hamid, Akhir, Ahmad, Desa, Rukunuddin, Ibni Hajar
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Published: Farm Machinery Industrial Research Corp. 2010
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spelling my.upm.eprints.161432016-11-14T08:44:10Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16143/ Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils Hamid, Akhir Ahmad, Desa Rukunuddin, Ibni Hajar Sweet potato cultivation is labour intensive and needs mechanization to reduce labour and drudgery of the farmer in the planting operation. In this study, an imported doublerow planter developed for vegetable planting was modified and tested on mineral and bris soils. Preliminary results gave a field capacity of one hectare per eight hour day for mineral soil and 0.5 hectare for bris soil. Manual planting required 150 man-days per hectare. Based on the field tests, the modified planter performed satisfactorily as a sweet potato transplanting machine as it helped reduce the cost of operation, labour requirements and increase timeliness. However, its performance was adversely affected by soil moisture, which should be less than 21 % (dry basis) for mineral soil and more than 18 % (dry basis) for bris soil. The work rate on mineral soil was 0.12 ha/hr while on bris soil the work rate was 0.098 ha/hr. The planting cost using the machine was estimated to be RM 232.45/ha while the manual planting cost was about RM 960.00/ha. The modified transplanter without a fertilizer hopper cost about RM 14,000. Farm Machinery Industrial Research Corp. 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/16143/1/Performance%20of%20sweet%20potato%20transplanting%20machine%20on%20mineral%20and%20bris%20soils.pdf Hamid, Akhir and Ahmad, Desa and Rukunuddin, Ibni Hajar (2010) Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils. AMA, Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America, 41 (1). pp. 55-59. ISSN 0084-5841 http://www.shin-norin.co.jp/english/16.html
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description Sweet potato cultivation is labour intensive and needs mechanization to reduce labour and drudgery of the farmer in the planting operation. In this study, an imported doublerow planter developed for vegetable planting was modified and tested on mineral and bris soils. Preliminary results gave a field capacity of one hectare per eight hour day for mineral soil and 0.5 hectare for bris soil. Manual planting required 150 man-days per hectare. Based on the field tests, the modified planter performed satisfactorily as a sweet potato transplanting machine as it helped reduce the cost of operation, labour requirements and increase timeliness. However, its performance was adversely affected by soil moisture, which should be less than 21 % (dry basis) for mineral soil and more than 18 % (dry basis) for bris soil. The work rate on mineral soil was 0.12 ha/hr while on bris soil the work rate was 0.098 ha/hr. The planting cost using the machine was estimated to be RM 232.45/ha while the manual planting cost was about RM 960.00/ha. The modified transplanter without a fertilizer hopper cost about RM 14,000.
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author Hamid, Akhir
Ahmad, Desa
Rukunuddin, Ibni Hajar
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Ahmad, Desa
Rukunuddin, Ibni Hajar
Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils
author_facet Hamid, Akhir
Ahmad, Desa
Rukunuddin, Ibni Hajar
author_sort Hamid, Akhir
title Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils
title_short Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils
title_full Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils
title_fullStr Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils
title_full_unstemmed Performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and BRIS soils
title_sort performance of sweet potato transplanting machine on mineral and bris soils
publisher Farm Machinery Industrial Research Corp.
publishDate 2010
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