Development of Automatic Transplanting System for Pot Seedlings

News sources: National Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute (NAMRI)
Rural Development Administration, Suwon 441-707, Korea., 2001-03-01

Components

The system consists of a pot supplying device, a soil filling device, a drilling device, and a transplanter. The pot supplying device provides pots by means of a pneumatic actuator. The soil filling device is capable of handling pots of different sizes. The drilling device makes holes into which seedlings are planted.

Capacity

The transplanter can plant 4 seedlings at one time. Pots 64 mm in diameter and 64 mm high held 104.0 g soil; pots 76 mm in diameter and 70 mm high held 165.2 g soil; and pots 89 mm in diameter and 78 mm high held 256.6 g soil. This transplanting system could produce 1,200 potted seedlings per hour, and the success rate of transplanting was about 96%.

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