Conventional manual vegetable farming in the open field and greenhouse is labour intensive,time consuming and inefficient.It is frequently associated with low yield and poor quality production.The constraints of conventional vegetable farming are high labour requirements in land clearing,ploughing,soil milling,bed forming,mulch laying,transplanting,seeding,fertilizing,chemical spraying,weeding,watering,harvesting and transporting.Therefore,a mechanization system package has been developed to adress these constraints.The system used the readily available prime movers and implements with some modifications to the system before appling to various type of vegetables production in small open field and also greenhouse.Small four-wheel or two-wheel tractor as a prime mover used in this mechanization system to provide take off that operates with various implements attached to them.The implements used were plough,rotorvator,soil miller,bed former,fertilizer applicator,transplanter,seeder,boom sprayer,weedier,harvester and trailer.The developed mechanization system requires additional costs in machinery acquisition,maintenance and fuel.However,with proper planning,managements and sufficients area of cultivation made,the production technically feasible and economically viable.
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