Published June 30, 2023 | Version v1
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DESIGN MODIFICATION, FABRICATION AND TESTING OF FOUR ROW TRACTOR DRAWN MULTI-SEED PLANTER WITH FERTILIZER APPLICATOR

Authors/Creators

  • 1. Farm Power and Machinery Department, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization, P.M.B. 1525, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Contributors

  • 1. Farm Power and Machinery Department, National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization, P.M.B. 1525, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria

Description

The problem of planting is a major challenge for farmers all over the world for a long
time. This has led to demand from various farmer groups and societies through the
various states ADPs for an improved, effective and faster means of carrying out the
planting operation since the imported planter are majorly beyond the purchasing
power of an average farmer in Nigeria. In response to the demands NCAM developed
a tractor drawn multi-seed planter with aim of solving the problem and encouraging
farmers to increase their production scale. The planter was designed for planting
seed crops namely maize; beans and guinea corn and the crops were used to test the
three available seed plates for the machine. The field test was carried out gave a seed
metering efficiency of 85%, field efficiency of 75.68%,effective field capacity of
0.7675 ha/h, at an average planting depth of 2.53cm, and an average spacing of 48
cm intra row. The result showed that NCAM developed multi-seed planter performed
satisfactorily when subjected to field operation and can as well reduce drudgery faced
by Nigerian farmers during planting operation.

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