The desire to not have to move through the greenhouse on your knees to embed the crop goes right smart back . Planting lily bulb is a precise and challenging job . The bulb always necessitate to be placed with ‘ its olfactory organ pointing up ’ and , if possible , all at the same deepness . Over the days , there have been multiple attempts to grow an efficient and full-bodied machine to do this caper , a machine that the engineers of Hans van der Poel , together with seven cultivator , can now proudly acquaint .
Lovely and equal crops thanks to undifferentiated works depth
“ There had n’t been an technologist to fill this golf hole yet ” , say Hans . “ A lily is a hard bulb in term of its shape . It has musical scale and root on the bottom , which pass water it unmanageable to get them to fit neatly in the trap that are drilled for them . late machines face the problem that the holes they drilled easily collapsed again . We have developed a particular drill plate that , after drill the muddle , neatly pushes the soil back as well as flattening the ground . A robotlike subdivision places the light bulb into the hole , after which the hole gets fill up up again . ”
Because of this , as well as a previously well - functioning freesia planter designed by Hans , people now dare to invest . “ There are all sorts of different type of soil , and everyone plant in a slightly different direction . In terms of harvesting , it can easily make one or a few twenty-four hours departure . you may set the machine for Army of the Pure ’s say 10 centimeters , and then every bulb will be place exactly 10 centimeter into the soil . aggregate with the fact that the simple machine is mechanically intelligent , together with a small group of grower , we have bought a prototype together . To screen the car , we used it to plant 800,000 medulla oblongata , and it is now being used as a test scat at Ruud van der Hoeven of Qualily . They have much thicker bulbs then we do , so it ’s interesting to see if thing run as swimmingly there as they did with us . Also , I have purchased a third , more developed motorcar sort . If things go as be after , the new machine will be delivered in September and will be used to set in one of our gardens where we plant 8 million bulbs each year . If it go well , we might buy another one in the future to use in one of our other gardens . ”
Novastar set about 20 million medulla oblongata each twelvemonth on a variety of locations . With the new planting car , they expect to reach about 6,000 incandescent lamp an hour with just two employees . This results in more than double the amount implant when using the traditional elbow room in which about 1,200 – 1,500 bulb are planted per hour by one mortal .
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