Paper Details

Performance evaluation of a peanut harvesting machine in Guilan province, Iran

Afshin Azmoodeh-Mishamandani, Shamsollah Abdollahpoor, Hossein Navid, Mohammad Moghaddam Vahed

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.12692/ijb/5.10.94-101

Int. J. Biosci. 5(10), 94-101. November, 2014. (PDF)

Abstract:

The objective of this study is determination of the effect of soil moisture content, forward speed and conveyor slope on pods loss in peanut harvesting. For this purpose, the percent of exposed pods loss, unexposed pods loss, undug pods loss and damaged pods loss were obtained according to related standard. The results revealed the effect of soil moisture content and forward speed were significant on the pods different loss while, the effect of conveyor slope wasn’t significant for all variables. The Interaction effect of forward speed and soil moisture content was only significant on the percent of exposed pods loss. As a result of this study, the sensible reduction of the pods loss total is possible by reducing the unexposed pods loss that was only related to the soil moisture content. Thus, the soil moisture content in harvesting must be controlled. Also results were revealed the averages of exposed pods loss can decrease by using the minimum conveyor slope at the minimum forward speed and vice versa.