National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Garlic is a spice crop grown throughout the world. It is used all over the world as a valuable condiment for foods. It is also known for remedy or medicine for various ailments and physiological disorders. India is second largest producer of garlic in the world. Garlic planting, as well as harvesting, is labour intensive operation. The labor requirement for planting is approximately, 520 man-h/ha. Most of the planting of garlic is done manually with the help of hand tools like khurpi. Commercially, it is sown by the Khera method. Garlic cultivation is limited due to excessive labor and time requirement as well as the high cost of planting. Therefore, low cost, lightweight, and precise garlic planter is the need of the hour. A push-type manually operated garlic planter was designed and developed. The developed planter was evaluated in the field conditions. The performance parameters like depth of planting, hill to hill spacing, number of seeds per hill, soil cover over the seed, missing hills, operating distance, operating time, operating speed, field capacity and seed rate were checked. The result of testing of the hill to hill spacing, depth of seed placement, number of seeds per hill, soil cover over the seed, missing hills, operating speed and field capacity were found 7.36 cm, 4.98 cm, 1.1, 4.98, 13.46%, 3.31 km/h, and 0.0367 ha/h respectively.
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