Review on Onion Plantation Mechanism

Abstract

The onion (Alilum cepa L.) is one of the important commercial vegetable crops grown on a large area in India and abroad for local consumption as well as export purpose. Onion growers are facing lot of problems in transplanting of onion seedlings with the shortage of farm laborers during transplanting seasons. Therefore, efforts were made to develop power operated semiautomatic onion transplanter. The elemental uses for small scale cropping appliances are, they should be suitable for small farms, simple in design and technology and versatile for use in different farm operations. This reduces the labor requirements which have been the principal motivating force in mechanization. This paper provides guidelines for developments in onion Trans-planters used in India. Onion planting is very old method from many years ago & having long history since many years & their methods of onion planting are changed in this decade. Use of onion Trans planter machines is new trend but current machines having high cost of purchase. So the main focus of this project is to minimize the cost of that machine. In the agricultural field, onion planting operation is very time consuming in farming process. Also more labors are required for onion planting. Hence the total cost of the farming increases. The conventional onion transplanting machines requires more onions and quantity of onions per unit area increases and this affects the yield. But to reduce the risk of draught due to unpredictable rainy season and for irrigation purpose farmers accepts ridge and furrow method. Here in this study efforts are taken to design and develop a onion planting machine which is suitable for ridge and furrow method.