Study of garlic (Allium sativum L.) clove planters

Abstract

Garlic (Allium sativum L.) is a species in “Alliaceae” family use for culinary and medicinal purpose. India is the second largest producer of garlic in the world after china. Garlic is the most ancient cultivated vegetables. It has been cultivated for thousands of years. From ancient time garlic is planting manually but it is more laborious operation. So, In India area under garlic cultivation is very less. To mechanize the garlic planting operation different researchers developed the garlic planter, but to overcomes the drawbacks of existing planter tractor operated garlic clove planter was developed having miss index, multiple index, quality of feed index, mechanical clove damage, effective field capacity and field efficiency is 3.64 %, 5.64 %, 90.72 %, 5.70 %, 0.32 ha/h and 79.02 %, respectively. Payback period and benefit cost ratio of developed garlic clove planter is 5.05 years and 1.98, respectively.