Development of a self-propelled riding garlic clove planter for film mulching -Static falling down angle,  center of gravity,  seed metering performance-

Choung-Keun Lee; Duck-Kyu Choi

doi:10.22765/pastj.20250007

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Development of a self-propelled riding garlic clove planter for film mulching -Static falling down angle, center of gravity, seed metering performance-

31 March 2025. pp. 81-94

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Abstract

Garlic planting is one of the most laborious works during garlic cultivation executed within a short period of time, especially when southern-type garlic are planted almost manually. This study was conducted to develop a self-propelled riding type garlic clove planter for the southern-type garlic. The garlic clove planter which is capable of drilling holes in the soil and planting garlic cloves at the same time was designed and tested for film mulched beds. The designed prototype planter consisted of main body, engine, travelling part, metering and planting device, metering and planting cam, metering bucket, seed hopper, and hydraulic equipment. Static turn-over angles toward left, right, front and rear side of the prototype were adjusted wider than 35°. Load distribution on the left-and right-side showed 45.9% and 54.1%, and those of the front-and rear-side were 37.3% and 62.7%, respectively. Results imply that difference of the load distribution on each wheel would not affect significantly on the straightness and driving ability of the prototype. When the planter was tested at variable working speed, the best performance was achieved with speed at 0.22 m/s with single clove planting rate, double clove metering, miss-planted rate and fall rate 62.5%, 24.0%, 13.5%, and 24%, respectively. The length and width of film opening by the seeding device were 6.8 cm and 3.2 cm that can be considered as sufficient for garlic sprouting. Yet there is need to improve the developed prototype garlic planter in the metering and seeding devices in order to increase the single clove metering rate and to reduce the miss-planted rate, and fall rate.

Keywords

Garlic

Garlic clove planter

Metering device

Planting device

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Publisher :Korean Society of Precision Agriculture
Publisher(Ko) :한국정밀농업학회
Journal Title :Precision Agriculture Science and Technology
Journal Title(Ko) :정밀농업과학기술
Volume : 7
No :1
Pages :81-94
Received Date : 2025-03-21
Revised Date : 2025-04-03
Accepted Date : 2025-04-03
DOI :https://doi.org/10.22765/pastj.20250007

Precision Agriculture Science and Technology ISSN:2672-0086(Print) 2713-5632(Online) 정밀농업과학기술

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