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 |
A tractor operated plastic mulch laying equipment was developed in the department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, CAE, UAS Raichur. It was developed to mechanize the conventional plastic mulching operation. A plastic mulch roller was mounted on the main frame of equipment. A 35 hp tractor was used as a power unit for both plastic mulching and drip laying operations. The plastic mulch laying equipment was tested in the field condition. Effect of operational parameters viz. type of material, width of plastic mulch and forward speed on soil moisture content of plastic mulched soil beds after 10, 20 and 30 days of plastic mulch laying were recorded. It was observed that soil moisture content was increased as the width of the material increased for both types of materials. However, higher moisture content was observed for the black colored plastic mulch for l200 mm width of plastic mulch at all the forward speeds. Theoretical field capacity of tractor operated plastic mulch laying was found to be 0.36 ha h-1. Effective field capacity of tractor operated plastic mulch laying was found to be 0.24 ha h-1.
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