FOUR BAR TWO ROW RICE TRANSPLANTER

Abstract

India is predominantly an agricultural country with rice as one of its main food crop. It produces
about 80 million tons rice annually, which is about 22% of the world rice production. Culturally,
transplanting of young seedlings is preferred over direct seeding for better yield and better crop
management practices. But this operation requires large amount of manpower (about 400 man-
hour/ha) and task is very laborious involving working in a stooping posture and moving in muddy
field. Hence, this is considered as an activity that needs mechanisation. A transplanter is an
agricultural machine used for transplanting seedlings to the field. This is very important as it reduces
the time taken to transplant seedlings, thus allowing more time for harvesting. Hence, Rice
Transplanter is one type of transplanter which plants paddy seedlings to the field.
Paddy seedlings are kept in the tray and allowed to flow down under gravity. The fork which is
attached to shaft picks up the seedlings from the tray and keeps it in horizontal position on the skid.
Here, Simple four bar mechanism is used to plant paddy seedlings into the land.

components used

Four Bar linkage

Chain

Sprockets

Tray

Shaft

Fork