PLANTING EQUIPMENT Flashcards
A mechanical device used to place seeds or plants in the soil for crop production.
PLANTING EQUIPMENT
Classification of planting equipment:
Row-crop planters and Solid planters
planters designed to plant seeds or plants in rows far
enough apart to permit the subsequent entry of machinery.
Row-crop planters
designed to plant seeds continuously in rows
with row spacing greater than 36 cm.
Row-crop drill planter
designed to plant one or more seeds or plants in rows
and in hills.
Hill-drop planter
planters designed to plant seeds or plants in patterns which do
not allow subsequent entry of machinery.
Solid planters
designed to plant seeds continuously in rows with
row spacing less than 36 cm.
Solid drill planter
designed to scatter the seeds uniformly over the surface
of the field without definite rows and hills. Seeds are covered by
harrowing.
Broadcaster
Mechanical functions of a planter:
Make a furrow
Furrow opener
Mechanical functions of a planter:
Meter the seeds
Metering device
Mechanical functions of a planter:
Deposit the seeds
Seed tube
Mechanical functions of a planter:
Cover the seeds
Furrow closer
a procedure of determining the performance of a planter under
the different seeding rates and row and hill spacings it is designed to operate.
Calibration of planters
Formula for AREA PER HILL
A= ROW SPACING * HILL SPACING
Formula for No. of hills per hectare
Nh=10000m2/ha over area per hill
