Email this article Small-sized unit for the restoration of herbage in mountain meadows and pastures
- Authors: Soldatova I.E.1, Gulueva L.R.1
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Affiliations:
- North Caucasian Research Institute of Highland and Piedmont Agriculture of the Vladikavkaz Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 90, No 3 (2023)
- Pages: 207-215
- Section: New machines and equipment
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/0321-4443/article/view/254651
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.17816/0321-4443-295013
- ID: 254651
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BACKGROUND: The results of R&D for the laboratory prototype of the unit for grass seeds oversowing on mountain slopes, which can increase labor efficiency and mountain forage lands yield by 20-25%, are presented.
AIMS: The developed laboratory prototype of a block module based on the Feng Shou 180 mini-tractor for surface oversowing of grass seeds, providing with an accelerated increase in the yield of perennial grasses and soil resistance to water and wind erosion.
METHODS: Technical expertise and testing of the unit and technology were carried out in the mountainous zone of the Republic of North Ossetia– Alania (Dargava basin, the base station of the Institute) at an altitude of 1540 meters above sea level. The indicators of the test conditions and functional performance of the unit were determined according to the OST 10.5.1-2000 industry standard. Technical examination of the unit was carried out according to the OST 10.2.1-97. Surface sowing of grass seeds was carried out according to GOST 31345-2017. The subject of research included the technology of grass seeds oversowing, the design of the unit and working bodies: pendular sowing machines, seeding rates and method of sowing.
METHODS: The laboratory prototype of the small-sized unit based on the Feng Shou 180 mini-tractor for surface oversowing of grass seeds has been developed and manufactured. The block module is a hinged structure with a two-row arrangement of containers for grass seeds and with pendular sowing machines. In the design of the small-sized mountain unit, motion across the slope from top to bottom is performed with a shuttle method with rolling of the sown seeds by press wheels. The grass was oversown on a rarefied section of the northern slope with a slope angle of 13–16° on the “Sugsadtanrag” terrain.
CONCLUSIONS: The practical application of the small-sized unit based on the Feng Shou 180 mini-tractor for surface oversowing of grass seeds with their subsequent pressing in areas in highland and piedmont areas ensures detaining of degradation processes of slope areas, accelerated increase in yield, quality and quantity of perennial grasses, improves soil resistance to water and wind erosion.
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Irina E. Soldatova
North Caucasian Research Institute of Highland and Piedmont Agriculture of the Vladikavkaz Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: irasha2012@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1683-6908
SPIN-code: 4079-6690
Scopus Author ID: 760267
Cand. Sci. (Biol.) Leading Officer of the Landscape Systems for Grassland Management in Mountainous Territories Department
Russian Federation, Mikhailovskoe, Republic of North Ossetia–AlaniaLudmila R. Gulueva
North Caucasian Research Institute of Highland and Piedmont Agriculture of the Vladikavkaz Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: luda_gulueva@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1089-3688
Senior Researcher of the Landscape Systems for Grassland Management in Mountain Territories Department
Russian Federation, Mikhailovskoe, Republic of North Ossetia–AlaniaReferences
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