Modification and Evaluation of Commercially Available Sugarcane Trench Planter for Its Application Under Punjab Conditions

Kumar, Mohit; Dogra, Baldev; Sanghera, Gulzar S.; Manes, G. S.

doi:10.1007/s12355-018-0679-y

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“…The transverse sowing mode of precut seed cane setts has become a widely used planting pattern [15], because it has the advantages of low cane seed consumption, strong lodging resistance, and a high bud ratio and yield [16]. Its biggest advantage over other types of planters such as the whole cane rod type of real-time cutting is that it can realize wholly automatic operation, while others need human assistance to feed cane seeds [17,18]. However, at present, research on sugarcane transverse planting machines focuses on metering devices and furrow openers [19][20][21], while there is little research on soil-covering and film-mulching devices.…”

Section: Agronomic Standards For Sugarcane Transverse Plantingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Design and Evaluation of a Soil-Covering and Film-Mulching Device for Sugarcane Transverse Planters

Xiao

et al. 2021

Agronomy

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To solve the problem that the covering device of sugarcane cannot be adequate for the agronomic standards of seed cane setts planting, a soil-covering and film-mulching device for sugarcane transverse planting was designed. The device includes a soil-covering part, soil-compacting part, and film-mulching part. Through theoretical analysis of key components, the factors affecting the cane seed covering quality for the device were obtained. A quadratic orthogonal rotation regression test was conducted by a homemade prototype to explore the effects of disk diameter, central distance, disk depth in soil, and dip angle on soil covering thickness. The results showed that the above factors all have an extremely significant effect on the soil covering thickness, and the effect degree of each factor from high to low is central distance, disk depth in soil, dip angle, and disk diameter within the range of test parameters. The optimal parameter combination, with the disk diameter, the dip angle, the central distance, the disk depth in soil, and the diameter of the soil-compacting wheel being 304.7 mm, 55.1°, 386.5 mm, 32.4 mm, and 300 mm, respectively, was obtained by Design-Expert software and verified by comprehensive field tests. The results showed that the covering thickness is in the range of 94–111 mm, the average value is 102.6 mm, and the breakage rate is no more than 2.6%. The emergence rate is 86.4%, which is an improvement of 9.3% over that of a traditional covering device. The results suggested that the device can conform to the agricultural covering standard of sugarcane planting and provide a design basis for the application and popularization of the soil-covering and film-mulching device.

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Section: Agronomic Standards For Sugarcane Transverse Plantingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Integrated Design and Evaluation of a Soil-Covering and Film-Mulching Device for Sugarcane Transverse Planters

Xiao

et al. 2021

Agronomy

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“…Moslem et al [9] considered an overlap of 12.5 cm as a normal pattern of planting; values higher and lower than 12.5 cm would result in over overlapping and under overlapping, respectively. Kumar et al [20] used the length of 10 setts and actual length covered by 10 setts to calculate the overlap and the gap when the sugarcane planter was run in the field with a length of 12 m. In the trial of Johnson et al [21], the number of billets planted was 109,000 per hectare, and the results showed that the effect of the position of the billets within the planting furrow on sugar yield was not economically significant. Silva et al [22] suggested that a good stand of buds per meter should be provided since the quality of planting is the most important factor for good yield.…”

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Experimental Study of the Planting Uniformity of Sugarcane Single-Bud Billet Planters

Wang

Liu

et al. 2022

Agriculture

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Planting uniformity is a key evaluation index for planters. This paper investigated the effect of rotational speed, the angle of the rake bar chain, and the number of billets on the planting uniformity of a seed-metering device in the laboratory. The experimental results showed that the optimal planting uniformity can be achieved under a rake bar chain angle of 117°, a number of billets of 500, and a rotational speed of the rake bar chain of 70 rpm. Under this condition, the quality index Zq was 97.22% and the multiple index Zm was 0%, while the miss index Ze was 2.78%. Based on the above parameters, a single-bud planter was improved with three rake bar chains per seed box. Field experiments with different operation parameters (rotational speed, forward speed) were conducted. Results indicated that when the rotational speed was 40 rpm and the forward speed was 2.26 km/h, the planting uniformity was the best and the quality index Zq was 93.38%. The research results provide a basis for the application of single-bud billet planters in the field.

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“…Most planting machines used worldwide lack the capability to prevent bud damage during the automatic cutting process of sugarcane seeds. Real-time automatic planters typically rely on fixed-length cutting, which offers higher efficiency compared to manual planting [7][8][9][10]. However, this approach often results in a high rate of bud injury.…”

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A new automatic sugarcane seed cutting machine based on internet of things technology and RGB color sensor

Yang,

Nasrat,

Badawy

et al. 2024

PLoS ONE

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Egypt is among the world’s largest producers of sugarcane. This crop is of great economic importance in the country, as it serves as a primary source of sugar, a vital strategic material. The pre-cutting planting mode is the most used technique for cultivating sugarcane in Egypt. However, this method is plagued by several issues that adversely affect the quality of the crop. A proposed solution to these problems is the implementation of a sugarcane-seed-cutting device, which incorporates automatic identification technology for optimal efficiency. The aim is to enhance the cutting quality and efficiency of the pre-cutting planting mode of sugarcane. The developed machine consists of a feeding system, a node scanning and detection system, a node cutting system, a sugarcane seed counting and monitoring system, and a control system. The current research aims to study the pulse widths (PW) of three-color channels (R, G, and B) of the RGB color sensors under laboratory conditions. The output PW of red, green, and blue channel values were recorded at three color types for hand-colored nodes [black, red, and blue], three speeds of the feeding system [7.5 m/min, 5 m/min, and 4.3 m/min], three installing heights of the RGB color sensors [2.0 cm, 3.0 cm, and 4.0 cm], and three widths of the colored line [10.0 mm, 7.0 mm, and 3.0 mm]. The laboratory test results s to identify hand-colored sugarcane nodes showed that the recognition rate ranged from 95% to 100% and the average scanning time ranged from 1.0 s to 1.75 s. The capacity of the developed machine ranged up to 1200 seeds per hour. The highest performance of the developed machine was 100% when using hand-colored sugarcane stalks with a 10 mm blue color line and installing the RGB color sensor at 2.0 cm in height, as well as increasing the speed of the feeding system to 7.5 m/min. The use of IoT and RGB color sensors has made it possible to get analytical indicators like those achieved with other automatic systems for cutting sugar cane seeds without requiring the use of computers or expensive, fast industrial cameras for image processing.

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Modification and Evaluation of Commercially Available Sugarcane Trench Planter for Its Application Under Punjab Conditions

Cited by 10 publications

References 6 publications

Integrated Design and Evaluation of a Soil-Covering and Film-Mulching Device for Sugarcane Transverse Planters

Integrated Design and Evaluation of a Soil-Covering and Film-Mulching Device for Sugarcane Transverse Planters

Experimental Study of the Planting Uniformity of Sugarcane Single-Bud Billet Planters

A new automatic sugarcane seed cutting machine based on internet of things technology and RGB color sensor

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