Development, Testing and Evaluation of Manually Operated Single Row Cotton Planter

Development, Testing and Evaluation of Manually Operated Single Row Cotton Planter

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Cotton planting is conventionally done by manual dibbling. The seeds are dibbled in lines at a depth of 30 mm with two seeds per hill maintaining the desired spacing between the rows and plants. The labour requirement for planting cotton is high (15 %) which is next to harvesting operation (44 %). This results higher cost of cultivation. Moreover, the traditional planting method is tedious, causing fatigue and backache due to the longer hours required for careful hand metering of seeds if crowding or bunching is to be avoided. Timely sowing has a dominant effect on germination of seed, plant g...