Check row planting is an essential part of precision agriculture, which allows weeding in both direction and sunlight up to the bottom of the crop. A tractor-operated check row planter was designed and developed for planting two rows of maize at a spacing of 4,040 cm. An electronic seed metering system was developed to maintain equal seed-to-seed distance. The planter was assisted with hydraulically controlled row guiding system to maintain straight path while moving forward. The effective field capacity, field efficiency and field machine index were found to be 0.12 ha.h~(-1), 75.20 and 72.72 respectively. The mean multiple index, quality of feed index, miss index and precision were observed to be 13.31, 75.74, 10.94, and 18.42, re-spectively in field conditions. Mean seed spacing was 40.32 cm, while mean row spacing was found to be 41.25 cm for the planter. The total cost of operation per hour in case of check row planter and manual check row planting were 3,000 and 18,750 Rs.ha~(-1). So total saving was 84% in case of check row planter as compared to manual planting. The breakeven point for the check row planter was 68 hours per year.
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