Abstract
The agriculture sector occupies more than 25% of the total gross domestic products in Palestine. This provides jobs for more than 15.2% of the population in West Bank and Gaza Strip. The cultivated land is over 1.854 million dunum. However, people still using traditional ways of planting which would consume time and effort. Agriculture faces huge costs and transplant losses during planting. In this study, an automated planting machine has been introduced. This machine is a hand to the agriculture sector in Palestine. It is proposed to increase the speed and precision of planting. It is designed to do the basic cultivation steps by transmitting the transplant gently to the land. The study focused on the plants used in Palestine considering their dimensions and the distance between each two neighbor seedlings. The simulation and experimental results for the prototype showed an accurate functioning of the controlled system. Besides a precise and a smooth processing during planting, the basic planting steps were done in a satisfied way from plowing passing through planting to cover it with soil. By designing this machine, main concerns could be achieved as human needs, cost, and time saving.
Highlights
Agriculture is a unified system of techniques to control the growth of animals and harvesting of fruit or vegetables
An automated planting machine has been introduced. This machine is a hand to the agriculture sector in Palestine
Besides a precise and a smooth processing during planting, the basic planting steps were done in a satisfied way from plowing passing through planting to cover it with soil
Summary
Agriculture is a unified system of techniques to control the growth of animals and harvesting of fruit or vegetables. Developing agriculture machines that plant huge areas becomes the first option to replace chemical substances in farming. The market is filled with modern farming technologies such as sowing and planting machines These machines are so efficient and can sow most kinds of saplings. Mahesh and Priyanka have done a research on an automatic sowing and plowing machine to plant small farms [4]. Kumara and Raheman developed a vegetable transplanter for paper pot seedlings [21] Another semi and fully automatic planter have been developed by other researchers [22,23,24,25,26,27]. The manufacturing price is reasonable and cheap compared to similar machines in the field It works automatically without the need for workers. No need for many workers to run the machine, fast performance, and it is flexible for any developments in the future
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