PULL TYPE PAPERPOT TRANSPLANTER FOR ONION: Let's Make Transplanting Easy

This transplanter was designed on the basis of ergonomical consideration for transplanting one row at a time. The main part of vegetable treansplanter is paperpot conveyer. For seedling rising papepot sheet is used. It decomposes in the soil during the season. The underside of the body has a furrow opener that creates a furrow, in which the seedlings are funneled into. Sweep and pressure wheel cover seedlings with plant. The theoretical field capacity in manual transplanting ranged from 0.002 ha/h against 0.0599 ha/h in mechanical transplanting. The effective field capacity of paperpot transplanter during experiment was 0.0246 ha/h whereas average field efficiency was 41.04 per cent. Traditional method, average manual transplanting rate was in the range of 8.57 to 10.59 seedlings-min-person and the labor requirement was 400 man-h/ha. Whereas, in mechanical transplanting, the transplanting rate of paperpot transplanter 81.37 seedlings-min-personwhich leading to decrease in labor requirement.