Objective
At the present time all available horticultural transplanting machines are semiautomatic and specific for the naked root transplant or with expanded polystyrene nurseries. In the beet case, while in countries like Japan the transplant procedure is widespread, in Europe this technique is very new (only eight years ago it was introduced in experimental way in Spain, using Japanese semiautomatic machinery), being the direct sowing the current trend. The main objective of the project is the design and construction of a prototype of beet transplanting machine and other vegetables like peppers, lettuces, tomatoes, etc. that operates in a completely automatic way with a considerable cost reduction in the production of vegetables. The project main goals are:
- Design of an automatic system for feeding of grafts. It is foreseen the need of just one operator for supervision work instead of one operator per row with the current technology.
- To obtain a versatile design that allows transplanting different types of sensitive vegetables in cold regions of the EU improving their farming capacity by 40%. Development of a prototype of two to six rows adapted to the European farming needs. Also, an additional benefit will be a very significant increment of 60% in the transplanting speed as compared to the present available machinery.
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture horticulture vegetable growing
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Spain
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