Performance test of sugarcane planter with minimum tillage at different densities of sugarcane leaf residues

Abstract

This paper attempts to demonstratethe performance of a sugarcane planter at the Agricultural Machinery Center, Kasetsart University Research from April 2014 to March 2015 with minimum tillage resulting from a slippery sliding rate (slip %), drawbar pull, drawbar power and PTO power as varied by the different densities of residues at 0, 2, 4, and 6 ton/ha and 2 depth levels of soil at 10 cm and 20 cm. The test was done over one and two rounds in the crop field, after the final sugarcane harvesting, with a moisture content of 22.115% (bulk density) and 19.202 % (bulk density). It was discovered that the fuel consumption rate of the sugarcane planter was at125 m/l at a tractor velocity of 3.2616 km/hr, the slippery sliding rate at 4.44 %, the draft (pulling) of lower link and top link at 8.30 kW, PTO power at 16.56 kW. The performance and total power of the sugarcane planter with minimum tillage resulted from the depth level of the soil opener and the different densities of the sugar cane leaf residues at 0 2 4 and 6 ton/ha and depth level of the soil to affect performance of the sugarcane planter. Therefore, the angle of subsoil opener should be reduced to less than 31 degrees to reduce the effect of soil resistance. © 2016, International Society for Southeast Asian Agricultural Sciences. All Rights Reserved.