Pneumatic type Precision Seeder for Cinnamon Nursery

The nursery plants that are planted in the field should embrace a good vigour from the beginning in Cinnamon cultivation to achieve best harvest. The main intention of maintaining good nursery of Cinnamon is to place plants with qualitative condition in the field. The qualitative condition of the plants, beginning from nursery to the field is an important factor that facilitates the maintenance of vigour of Cinnamon plant in the field. Seed spacing uniformity can affect cinnamon plant spacing within the polybag being subjected to both vegetative and reproductive growth, yield and establishing uniform crop stands in fields; this is the main goal of the growers.
In order to observe this problem, a necessity for developing a Seeder had been risen. As a remedial measure for this problem, a pneumatic type seeder was developed. The pneumatic precision seed metering device is designed especially to meet the requirements of sowing cinnamon seeds with the recommended seed rate and even seed distribution to obtain good quality, low cost nursery cinnamon plants. Here, a low air pressure is made with the use of a blower fan fixed to a brush type motor with a high rpm rate. Sowing devices equipped with seed metering header are called precision seeder. This pneumatic Cinnamon seeder embraces some system such as, the system that develop negative pressured air flow, negative pressured air supply horses, seed and covering material – gathering and delivering header, air flow control valves and handle with operating cable system. Assembling the main systems mentioned above, the cinnamon seeder could be designed in two ways as Portable and stationary types; in the Portable type, the seeding should be done by carrying the seeder nearby the nursery. Moreover, the developed seeder was found to be accurate in maintaining even seed distribution within the polybag. Thus, the developed pneumatic type cinnamon poly bag seeder can be used as an appropriate tool to replace the existing process of manual seeding.