Claim · model-written summary
Forward speed, depth and soil moisture significantly affected fuel consumption.
- Taxon
- wheat
Triticum aestivume1 - Treatment
- forward speed, depth of operation, and soil moisturee0
- Outcome
- fuel consumptione0
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Verbatim
e0“forward speed, depth of operation, and soil moisture had significant effects on weeding efficiency, plant damage, effective field capacity, and fuel consumption at P<0.05 level of significance”
e1“in wheat crop”
Title
Performance Evaluation of Engine-Operated Weeding Machine
Degefa Woyessa Journal of Innovative Research 2023. doi:10.54536/jir.v1i3.1544
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Method / resource The weeder performed optimally at 15.25 percent soil moisture, 0 to 40 mm depth and 1.5 km/hr.
- Method / resource Maximum weeding efficiency was 90.1 percent.
- Method / resource Plant damage was 3.31 percent.
- Method / resource Effective field capacity was 0.052 ha/hr.
- Method / resource Field efficiency was 85.99%.
- Method / resource Fuel consumption was 0.41 l/hr.
- Method / resource Performance index was 276.78 ha/hp.
- Method / resource Energy consumption was 481.71 MJ/ha.
- Association Forward speed, depth and soil moisture significantly affected weeding efficiency, plant damage and effective field capacity.
- Method / resource Engine-operated weeding cost 758 ETB/ha versus 1920 ETB/ha for traditional weeding.
- Recommendation The authors consider the weeder efficient, effective and economically viable for small and medium scale farmers.