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1st Workshop BOOK - project RHEA

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Robotics and associated High technologies and Equipment for Agriculture<br />

precision hoeing with vibrating tines + torsion weeder, precision hoeing + torsion<br />

weeder and manual flaming carried out with a device carried on the operator's<br />

back and operating at a speed of about 2 km h -1 and a working pressure of 0.2 MPa.<br />

On some experimental plots, no secondary treatment was performed. Weed interrow<br />

and intra-row densities were determined on the basis of a 25×30 cm sampling<br />

area. At harvest, crop production and weed biomass were determined. The<br />

experimental design was a strip plot with three replicates. Data were analysed by<br />

ANOVA. Treatment means were separated using Fisher's least square difference at<br />

P< 0.05 (Gomez and Gomez 1984)<br />

Fig. 5. The six-element precision hoe: A) seat for the operator; B) hand guidance<br />

system; C) directional wheel; D) articulated parallelogram; E) horizontal blade; F)<br />

lateral disc; G) wheel of the articulated parallelogram; H) spring tines<br />

Fig. 6. The precision hoe spring tools: vibrating tines (left); torsion weeder (right)<br />

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