• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2000.11b
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• pp.438-445
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• 2000

Positioning garlic cloves in upright standing in garlic field has been regarded as a very important job because it affects clove rooting, growing and, eventually, quality and yield in garlic production, Because of the geometrical uniqueness and irregularity of garlic cloves in shape, the planting operation has been conducted by manual work that needs a tremendous human labors and increases garlic production cost. The overall objective of this research was to develop garlic planting machine through investigating physical properties of garlic and designing clove upright positioning device after figuring out the factors affecting metering device and upright clove positioning mechanism. With the outcomes of the metering and posture positioning experiment, a garlic clove planter having twelve planting rows was developed for 37kW type tractor and feasibility test was carried out in the field. And, According to the performance test and cost analysis, the planter could accomplish planting operation of one hectare plot in 6.3 hours giving 48 times better efficiency, 6.3hrs/ha, and 74.2% of production cost reduction effect, 1,092,546won/ha, than the manual works of 299hrs/ha and 282,258won/ha. And, break-even point ofthe planter was calculated as of 2.71 hectares.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.27 no.6
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• pp.547-556
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• 2002

Upright positioning of garlic cloves in mechanical planting has been considered as an essential process because pose of garlic affects not only initial budding and rooting of garlics but quality and yield. Due to the geometrical uniqueness and irregularity of garlic cloves in shape, manual planting operation has been conducted. The overall objective of this research was to determine design factors for designing a garlic clove planter The results are summarized as follows : 1. A vibrating-type clove-metering device was designed and tested. Effects of tilted angle of metering plate and magnitude of vibration on metering performance were investigated. The successful planting rates of the metering device were 96.7% for Hanji varieties. 2. Clove upright-positioning device, posture inducer was designed and tested. When the clearance between the hoppers was set at 4mm, the rates of upright positioning of the device were 92.2% for with Hanji varieties. 3. Optimum metering performance was observed at the plate tilted angle of 80。 with the posture type positioning device.

• Korean Journal of Agricultural Science
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• v.46 no.2
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• pp.341-350
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• 2019

Garlic is one of the most popular seasoning bulb vegetables in Korea and is the most commonly used food ingredient. However, the cultivation areas are decreasing every year as the price drops due to imported garlic, and labor is insufficient to produce garlic by conventional methods. Cultivation requires various tasks until garlic is harvested. Seeding is one of the important and laborious tasks; thus, mechanization is necessary. When seeding garlic, the sprout should face upwards; otherwise, it may rot or produce poor quality garlic. This study investigated the extent of growth of northern- and southern-type garlic in eight different positions. The results show when the roots were not planted properly, the stems were weak, and the garlic bulbs were small. A simple garlic planter was manufactured with a crank-press mechanism to plant garlic in an upright position. Using this machine, a three-fold experiment was carried out with 100 strips of garlic. The test results showed that 99.4% of the planted garlic strips were positioned upright or close to being upright, and 0.6% failed to take root. An image processing algorithm was developed to locate the root part of the garlic, and the result showed a success rate of 81%. A future study will develop an automatic garlic upright planting system with a viewing system.

• Journal of Biosystems Engineering
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• v.26 no.6
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• pp.495-502
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• 2001

Upright positioning of garlic cloves has been considered as an essential process for mechanical planting because positioning affects the quality and yield of garlic production. Due to the geometrical uniqueness and irregularity of garlic cloves in shape, the planting operation has been conducted by manual. Manual planting requires intensive labors and high production cost. The overall Boal of this research was to develop a garlic clove planter which maintains a garlic clone upright. Specific objective was investigating planting condition and physical properties of garlic clove. The results were summarized as fellows : Based on the survey results, a garlic clove planter should have a planting capacity of at least 140 cloves in a pyung (3.3m$^2$) with the row spacing of 140mm and hill spacing of 120mm for a productive cultivation.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Agricultural Machinery Conference
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• 2017.04a
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• pp.84-84
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• 2017

직립식 마늘파종기는 마늘 종구를 한 알씩 집어 올려 중간이송컵으로 이송하는 자세교정컵과 배종부와 자세교정컵에서 낙하된 마늘종구를 땅속으로 파종하는 구조로 설계 제작되었으며,전라북도 익산시에 테스트베드를 구축하여 기계파종을 통한 파종기의 성능개선연구를 수행하였다. 기계파종은 1차년도 기존 파종기의 성능을 개선한 7조식 시제품과, 국내산과 스페인산 마늘을 파종하였으며, 11조용 참여기업의 기존 파종기를 이용하여 테스트베드에서 수행하였다. 비가 온 뒤의 땅에 파종한 라인의 샘플링 자료조사 결과(5m 구간 기준으로 체크) 결주율이 각각 17.81%, 35.6%로 평균적인 결주율이 0.57%인 일반 기상상태와 비교하면 매우 높은 결주율을 보이는 것을 알 수 있다. 마늘 파종법에 대한 결과로, 총 4가지의 파종법을 사용하였으며, 사용한 파종방법에는 2조 병목식 스페인식 파종법, 11조식 트랙터용 파종법, 7조식 트랙터용 파종법, 6조식 이양기용 파종법이다. 이 4가지 파종법 중에서 3가지 파종법에 대한 성장률에 대해서 조사를 해보았다. 11조식의 경우에는 제주도식 파종을 하여 비닐 멀칭이 되어있지 않으며, 7조식의 경우에는 비닐 멀칭이 되어있는 파종방식을 사용하였고, 2조식 병목식 스페인식 파종법의 경우에는 자유낙하 방식으로 비닐 멀칭의 유무에 따라 성장률에 대해서 조사를 하였다. 결주율은 파종된 마늘 중 샘플링한 데이터에 대해서 얼마나 파종이 잘되었는지에 퍼센트로 나타낸 것으로 11조식의 경우 비닐멀칭도 없고 비온 뒤에 파종 되어 파종시기에 문제가 있는 것으로 사료됨. 비가오지 않은 날씨에서 측정한 7조식 1차년도 성능개선 시작품의 결주율은 0.57%로 우수하게 나타났다. 발아율은 파종된 마늘 중 샘플링한 데이터에 대해서 다립파종 되어서 미성장된 것과 결주율을 합하여 퍼센트로 나타낸 것으로 시제품으로 개발한 7조식 파종기는 스페인산과 국내산 마늘의 발아율이 모두 90% 이상으로 나타났으며, 차이점은 파종시기의 차이에 따라 발아율의 차이가 있는 것으로 사료(토양, 재배환경 및 기후에 따른 변동요인이 많음)되며, 이는 파종법의 종류뿐만 아니라 비닐멀칭의 온도유지가 마늘 성장률에 얼마나 영향을 끼치는지에 대한 병행연구도 필요한 것으로 나타났다. 마늘의 성장률에 대해서는 아직 표준화, 정형화 되어있는 측정방법이 없기 때문에 이를 표준화, 정형화를 할 필요가 있다. 향후 이와 같은 결과를 토대로 직립식 마늘파종기의 성능을 더욱 개선시키는 연구를 지속적으로 수행할 계획이다.