INTEGRATED INTER-ROW CULTIVATOR UNIT SUIT FOR VEGETABLE CROPS | ||
| Misr Journal of Agricultural Engineering | ||
| Article 1, Volume 36, Issue 4, October 2019, Pages 1041-1056 PDF (1005.15 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjae.2019.94873 | ||
| Author | ||
| T. H. EL-Shabrawy | ||
| Assoc. Prof., Agric. Eng. Dept., Fac. of Agric., Mansoura Univ., Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This research aimed manufactured and evaluate the developed cultivator unit with modified share suit for vegetables crops inter – row cultivation process, field experiments were carried out on tomato crop planting season 2019 under different operating conditions, at three types of shares used in cultivator unit St (shovel share & Duck leg share & modified share with wings), four inclination angles of soil sliding knife Sa (Sa1=30o & Sa2=35o & Sa3= 40o & Sa4= 45o) and three depths of press wheel Wd (Wd1= 2 & Wd2= 3 and Wd3= 4 cm.). four measurements achieved : weed erasing efficiency (We %) , weed control efficiency (Wc %), percentage of damaged plants (Dp %) and furrow cross-section profiles, all experimental procedures and measurements were assessed after 30 days from tomato transplanting. The results showed that the highest press wheel depth (Wd3 = 4 cm) with soil sliding knife inclined angle (Sa = 45o) and wing share obtained high erasing efficiency (We=97%) and highest weed control with regular forming furrow profile, on the other hand duck leg share had highest damage plant percentage (Dp = 1.2%). | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Integrated weed control; Mechanical inter-row cultivation - Tomato crop cultivation - Furrow - Press wheel - Cultivator share | ||
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