Proper selection of energy-efficient agricultural machinery helps to reduce drudgery,
increase cropping intensity and reduce time required for field preparation. With conventional …

The costliness of energy, forces the farmers to choose another cost efficient tillage methods.
The cost as well as time of operation plays a critical role in choosing another tools for tillage …

This study was carried out to investigate the effect of plowing depth and soil moisture content
on reduced secondary tillage operation. Split plots were used for statistical analysis. The …

Neural networks and image processing techniques to identify and classify the importance of
areca nuts in this research work. A back-propagation cellular network classifier was used to …

A field experiment was conducted in two different locations at Agricultural Research Station
of Garmat Ali in Basrah-Iraq. The aim of this investigation is to evaluate the effective field …

A new design of the harrow with screw-type operating tools is presented in the paper. It
describes the theoretical and experimental investigations carried out for the purpose of …

The study was carried out to investigate some of the physical and chemical characteristics of
the soil collected from the farms of al-Khums region of Libya. Soil moisture contents in dry …

ABSTRAC A field experiments were conducted at one of the fields of Agricultural College-
University of Basrah, Karmatt-Ali campus in silty loam soil by using randomized complete …

Tillage consumes a large part of the energy in mechanized agriculture. Tillage or soil
preparation has been an integral part of traditional agricultural crop production practice (Gill …

A low cost manually operated single row vegetable seedling planter was developed for
transplanting of plug and pot type vegetable seedlings on ridges and mulch beds. It …