Performance of Jarwo Rice Transplanter, Tegel Rice Transplanter, and Atabela Systems in Central Sulawesi

Abstract

Abstract One of the important factors in the agricultural production is labour. However, most of the agricultural workforce has entered a non-productive age, while the interest of the younger generation to enter agricultural land is getting lower, especially with the traditional system. Agricultural mechanization is necessary to handle this problem. Futhermore, the most efficient machine and system will be the best choice to get farm efficiency. The study aims to evaluate the performance of three rice planting tools which were considered also based on the land topography. Data were collected to meet the requirements of technical considerations that have been set in on the standards. The results showed that the Jarwo Rice Transplanter is the most efficient regarded to the effective field capacity which was 0.391 hectares/hour. The efficiency of land management of jarwo rice transplanter is the most effective by 58.86%. This is influenced by several factors, such as the skill of the operator, soil condition, land size, wheel slip, and also the shape of the planting tool.