Development of a Low-Cost Seed Drill for Sowing Amaranth Seed

Adewale Sedara¹ , Yusuf Ibrahim² , Seth Manuwa³ , Oluwadunsin Sedara⁴

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.7 , Issue.3 , pp.39-45, Sep-2020

Online published on Sep 30, 2020

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Abstract :
The elementary necessities for planting using tools or machines are in its simplicity, design model and knowledge which are adaptable used for diverse farm tasks. Single row amaranth seed planter was established toward increasing productivity with moderate technique to plant Amaranth. The study is aim to design, construct and asses a low-cost amaranth seed drill. The amaranth seed drill comprises of feeder hopper, metering device/chamber, wheels, discharge sprout, furrow opener, covering device and push handle. It was calibrated in the workshop for spacing, metering and check damaged seeds in rows. Calibration involves loading the hopper with 50 g (with sand) of amaranth seeds. Error bars was used for analysis and highest metering efficiency was 92.3% with machine speed of 1.8 m/secs for (3) holes metering device; and 83.3% with 1.9 m/secs speed for one (1) hole metering device; this was obtained at low speed. The ANOVA performed shows that speed has significant effect on the metering efficiency one (1) hole with P-value of 0.000 and no significant effect on (3) holes metering efficiency 0.563. The tukey’s test showed that 1.8 m/secs and 1.9 m/secs performed better than other speeds for one (1) hole; while all speeds are of the same range for (3) holes. In conclusion the metering device increases seed planting and accuracies at low speeds. Fabricated with locally sourced material making it affordable to commercial farmers to lessen drudgery.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Amaranth seed, seed drill, metering efficiency, speed, planting

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