The Amount of Soil and Conveyor Length and its Effect on Tubers
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chain conveyor, tractor speeds, rubber coated, iron barsAbstract
A field experiment was conducted in one of the fields of the Technical Institute in Shatrha 2022. This study aims to investigate the effect of amount of soil and conveyor length on damage tubers by using potato digger . Total damage tubers, lifting tubers were studied in this research . Indicator involved three levels of tractor forward speeds (2.54, 2.88 ,3.50 km . h-1), and two levels of conveyor chain speeds (38 , 45) m. min-1 and two level of type of chain conveyor of iron bars and rubber -coated. The complete random design with three replications was used in the research. The results showed that the tractor speed 2.54 km/h gets the total damaged tubers, to 13.18%, and the lifting tubers amounted to 96.11%. while the speed of the chain conveyor 38 m/min gets the lowest percentage of total damaged tubers , which amounted to 16.94% and lifting tubers to 94.58 %. It was concluded that : using a potato digger with tractor speed 2.5 km/h, chain conveyor speed 38 m/min and rubber coated bars of chain conveyor.
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