Advancement in Vegetable Transplanting: Mechanization, Challenges and Opportunities By IJISRT

Abstract

The transplanting operation is required higher labour intensity and lower efficiency for the operation by hand in vegetable production. It is largely done by hand in India and vegetable transplanting is a time-consuming field operation when performed manually. This makes it necessary to adapt the mechanization for vegetable transplantation to save money and time and increase the productivity to fulfil the food requirement of a huge population. Due to the growing demand for vegetables all year round, the use of vegetable transplanters has become widespread in agricultural production. Hand transplanting of vegetable seedlings is always been a time consuming and laborious activity which often leads to muscular fatigue. The work is drudgeries and laborious as the operation is done in a bending and squatting posture. The semi-automatic vegetable transplanters are heavy to operate due to limitations on manual feeding rates of seedlings which vary with respect to work duration and skill of the operator. Automation in the field of vegetable transplanters has provided opportunities for savings in labour and time required for transplanting operation. The beginning and current advances in transplanting technologies suggest ample scope of working on automated seedling pickup and drop mechanisms using robotics. This study highlights the discuss vegetable transplanter and advances in transplanting technologies used in the field.