MANUFACTURE AND EVALUATION PERFORMANCE OF A GARLIC-CLOVES PLANTER

The aim of this investigation is to locally manufacturing and evaluate a one row garlic-cloves planter. field experiments were carried out in salty clay loam soil at the experimental farm of sakha, agricultural research station kafr el-sheikh governorate. the manufacturing garlic-cloves planter consists of the main frame with three hitching-points, transmission system, two slot weapon planning, feeding device to cover garlic cloves and one-row planting unit. it consists of clove box, vertical disk containing cells of agriculture (a) or (b). cell (a) is a parallelogram dimensions of 4, 2.5 and 2 cm length, width and height, respectively, and closed its aspects except the front side and the front half of the surface and cells (b) is a half-cylindrical shape of 4 cm length, 2 cm radius and closed from the rear side. small agitators were fixed inside the clove box and operated by means of pulley and v-belt powered from planting disc and ground wheel and transmission shaft to planting disc. the investigated variables of this study were; four different forward planting speeds ( 2.5, 3.2, 4.1 and 5.4 km/h), two various types of cell (a and b) and three different depths of planting (1.5, 4.0 and 6.0 cm). the performance was fudged by missing hills percentage (%), germination percentage (%), productivity (ton/fed), longitudinal scattering (cm), field capacity (fed/h), energy consumed (kw.h/fed) and total cost estimate (l.e./fed). the experimental results reveal that the lowest value of missing hills percentage of garlic was 2.0% which achieved with cell type a at forward speed of 2.5 km/h. the highest value of productivity was (8.55 ton/fed) also obtained with cell type a at forward speed of 2.5 km/h. and planting depth 4 cm. the minimum value of field capacity 0.4 fed/h was recorded at forward speed of 2.5 km/h, and planting depth of 6 cm . the maximum energy consumed of 25.75 kw.h/fed was recorded at forward speed of 2.5 km/h, planting depth of 6 cm. the minimum value of total cost 36.43 l.e./fed was obtained at forward speed of 5.4 km/h, and planting depth of 1.5 cm .finally, it is recommended to apply a garlic-cloves planter using cell (a), depth of planting 4 cm and forward planting speed 2.5 km/h to achieve the maximum germination percentage and the highest value of productivity.