A vertical cup with split base type metering mechanismwas developed for transplanting cell type nursery. The metering mechanism holds the nursery seedling, dig a hole in the soil at desired depth and releases the seedlings in the hole in near vertical position without any damage. The developed metering mechanism was evaluated in the laboratory for transplanting artificial nursery grown in trays having three different cell sizes 50, 98 and 105 cells/tray at three different feedrates 50, 65 and 80 feeds per minute respectively forthree subjects. | Development and evaluation of vertical cup with split base type metering mechanism cum dibbler for semi-automatic transplanter using cell feed type nursery
