DEVELOPMENT LAND LEVELER TO SUIT SOIL INITIALIZE FOR CLOVER CROP

Fouda, O. A; Awad, M. A.; Abd Elhamed, Sh. F.

doi:10.21608/mjae.2014.98212

DEVELOPMENT LAND LEVELER TO SUIT SOIL INITIALIZE FOR CLOVER CROP

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Researcher in Agric. Eng. Res. Institute, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

² Senior researcher in Agric. Eng. Res. Institute, Dokki, Giza, Egypt

10.21608/mjae.2014.98212

Abstract

Efforts were identified to improve seedbed for clover seed germination by adding till shares at the front of the land leveler blade. The studied variables are three share depths of 0.0, 50.0, 100.0 mm and three shares span of 118, 154 and 200 mm and four forward speeds of 2.7, 3.7, 4.3 and 4.9 km/h. The results indicated that, both of uprooting rice roots and planting intensity increased by 49.36, 27.55 also clover yield increased by 20.49%. Tractor slippage was within safe limits by proportion of 11.76%, pulling force of 2.67 kN, specific energy of 12.03 kW h/fed and the mean weight diameters of 28 mm at using the cutting blade of land leveler provided with share depth of 50 mm, shares span of 118 mm and forward speed of 3.7 km/h. The developed land leveler at the previous operating conditions achieved the highest productivity of 59.6 Mg/fed from the total cutting time.

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