RESEARCH AND SOLUTION TO REDUCE DAMAGE TO SOYBEAN SEEDS IN THE SOWING BY MECHANICAL SEEDING APPARATUS
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Keywords: soybean, mechanical seeding apparatus, damaging of seed, adaptation, restrictor.Abstract
Abstract. In agriculture soybean is one of the most important crops. In this article
results of research in the laboratory are shown for sowing soybean seeds using
mechanical sowing apparatus. In the experiments, the number of measurements at the
sowing depth was 100 and the number of lines was 10. The sowing capacity was 35-
40 kg, the sowing depth was 4 cm and the width of the line was 90 cm. During the
experiment, the difference in sowing measure between real sowing and SCHX-4 which
has a mechanical apparatus was 6.75% and the average sowing depth and its standard
deviation were 3.8 and 0.31 cm respectively. The width between the main and side
rows was 89.5 and 92.5 cm respectively, and the damage level of seed caused by seeder
SCHX-4 was 5.2 %. This apparatus did not reach agro-technical requirement. Thus a
restrictor was installed was made from rubber and formed a semi molded formation on
the hole where the seed enters the sowing apparatus which decreased the seed damage
to 0.8 %.
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