Determining the Field Performance and Cost Analysis of Walk Behind Type Semi-Automatic Hand Feed Vegetable Transplanter

Özet

This study was carried out to determine field performance of walk behind type semi-automatic hand feed vegetable transplanter with one row. Experiments were conducted in region of Menderes, Bayındır, Torbalı and Çeşme in İzmir. During the experiments, walk behind type semi-automatic hand feed vegetable transplanter with one row (WBM) was compared with tractor mounted semi-automatic hand feed transplanter with three-row (TMM) and hand planting (CP) widely used in the regions aforementioned above. Plant spacing, depth of planting and holding force to soil of tomato and pepper seedlings planted with WBM, TMM and CP were measured and take-root rates of these seedlings were calculated. In addition to field capacity of WBM, TMM and CP, total cost analysis of WBM, TMM and CP were comparatively given with fuel consumption of WBM and TMM.