Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nursery
Potting is still a manual operation in plantation, forestry, and 11 other horticultural nurseries in India and the preparation of pot-mixture and filling in polybags are crucial tasks and are time consuming. Therefore, a poweroperated continuous-run machine was specially designed, fabricated, and te...
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| description | Potting is still a manual operation in plantation, forestry, and 11 other horticultural nurseries in India and the preparation of pot-mixture and filling in polybags are crucial tasks and are time consuming. Therefore, a poweroperated continuous-run machine was specially designed, fabricated, and tested to master seedling-nursery management capable of mixing, pulverizing, sieving, and filling of pot ingredients in polybags. The machine is a vertical freestanding unit mounted on four legs and consists of 3-hp motor, feed-hopper, pulverizing chamber with 8-numbers of paddles, sieving compartment operated by a slider-crank mechanism, vending instrumentation, and outlet. Ingredients like soil, sand, granite power, farmyard manure, and compost are fed from the top and the pot-mixture is collected at the bottom. Electronic vending is the novelty of the machine, which permits filling pot-mixture at set quantity at set time-gap. Aggregate analysis, degree of pulverization, and other physical parameters of machine-made mixture are at recommended level as well as on par with manually-made pot-mixture. More proportion (81.8%) of desirable level of aggregate was achieved with machine compared in manual method (79.5%) resulted in improved quality of the mixture for seedling establishment. Bagging through machine worked out 71.4% cost-saving and 80.2% time-saving. The machine is recommended for nursery-holders around the nation since the machine can provide pot-mixture for development of saplings of 30 000 numbers per month in a commercial nursery. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-eb2353d29116484ab0e1e22a7da81cd02023-08-17T09:17:34ZengIndian Council of Agricultural ResearchThe Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences0019-50222394-33192015-06-0185610.56093/ijas.v85i6.49245Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nurseryM MUTHAMIL SELVAN0C K THANKAMANI1S J K ANNAMALAI2E JAYASHREE3Senior Scientist, Division of Agricultural Engineering, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012Principal Scientist, Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi 110 012Senior Scientist, Indian Institute of Spices Research, Calicut, Kerala 673 012Principal Scientist, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Regional Centre, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641 003Potting is still a manual operation in plantation, forestry, and 11 other horticultural nurseries in India and the preparation of pot-mixture and filling in polybags are crucial tasks and are time consuming. Therefore, a poweroperated continuous-run machine was specially designed, fabricated, and tested to master seedling-nursery management capable of mixing, pulverizing, sieving, and filling of pot ingredients in polybags. The machine is a vertical freestanding unit mounted on four legs and consists of 3-hp motor, feed-hopper, pulverizing chamber with 8-numbers of paddles, sieving compartment operated by a slider-crank mechanism, vending instrumentation, and outlet. Ingredients like soil, sand, granite power, farmyard manure, and compost are fed from the top and the pot-mixture is collected at the bottom. Electronic vending is the novelty of the machine, which permits filling pot-mixture at set quantity at set time-gap. Aggregate analysis, degree of pulverization, and other physical parameters of machine-made mixture are at recommended level as well as on par with manually-made pot-mixture. More proportion (81.8%) of desirable level of aggregate was achieved with machine compared in manual method (79.5%) resulted in improved quality of the mixture for seedling establishment. Bagging through machine worked out 71.4% cost-saving and 80.2% time-saving. The machine is recommended for nursery-holders around the nation since the machine can provide pot-mixture for development of saplings of 30 000 numbers per month in a commercial nursery.https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/49245Bagging machinePotting machinePotting mediaPropagating medium |
| spellingShingle | M MUTHAMIL SELVAN C K THANKAMANI S J K ANNAMALAI E JAYASHREE Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nursery The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences Bagging machine Potting machine Potting media Propagating medium |
| title | Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nursery |
| title_full | Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nursery |
| title_fullStr | Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nursery |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nursery |
| title_short | Design and development of power-operated continuous-run potting machine for seedling-nursery |
| title_sort | design and development of power operated continuous run potting machine for seedling nursery |
| topic | Bagging machine Potting machine Potting media Propagating medium |
| url | https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/IJAgS/article/view/49245 |
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