Adebija, J. A., Kamal, A. R., Agaja, F., Ochin, E. and A. A. Adewumi
Farm Power and Machinery Department,
National Centre for Agricultural Mechanization, P.M.B. 1525, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria
DOI: https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.13128270
ABSTRACT
The problem of planting is a major challenge for farmers all over the world for a long time. This has led to demand from various farmer groups and societies through the
various states ADPs for an improved, effective and faster means of carrying out the planting operation since the imported planter are majorly beyond the purchasing
power of an average farmer in Nigeria. In response to the demands NCAM developed a tractor drawn multi-seed planter with aim of solving the problem and encouraging farmers to increase their production scale. The planter was designed for planting seed crops namely maize; beans and guinea corn and the crops were used to test the three available seed plates for the machine.