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Development and Efficiency Assessment of Weeding Machine for Sweet Corn |
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| Creator | Sirijad Kongkaew |
| Title | Development and Efficiency Assessment of Weeding Machine for Sweet Corn |
| Contributor | Singrun Charee, Prapaiphun Sittigool, Bandit Thongsroy, Krid Pholpo |
| Publisher | Thai Socities of Agricultural Engineering Journal |
| Publication Year | 2564 |
| Journal Title | Thai Socities of Agricultural Engineering Journal |
| Journal Vol. | 27 |
| Journal No. | 2 |
| Page no. | 12-18 |
| Keyword | Weeding machine, Weeds, Sweet corn |
| URL Website | www.tci-thaijo.org /index.php/TSAEJ |
| ISSN | 1685-408X |
| Abstract | Objectives of this research were to develop and efficiency assessment of weeding machine for sweet corn. The expectation of this research was to raise production of weeding machine to higher performance and reduce work-times due to the shortage of labor in the agricultural sector. The weeding machine was powered by a 5 hp gasoline engine and consisted of a wheelset attached to the car, a weeding set, a power relay, a throttle set and a powertrain gear. Efficacy of a prototype weeder using sweet corn plots. The propulsion speed was 1.5, 2.0, 2.5, 3.0 and 3.5 km h-1. It was found that at the speed of movement of 2.5 km h-1 giving the weeding capacity of 0.8 rai h-1 had a Weeding 82.77%, fuel consumption rate 2.18 L rai-1. An engineering economic analysis showed that, for an operation of 300 day year-1 and 8 hour day-1, the break-even period was 8 days and the break-even point was 60 rai year-1. |
