PENGEMBANGAN ALAT PENANAM BIBIT PADI PADA KELOMPOK TANI MANJALLING

Abstract

The majority of farmers, especially Manjalling village Sub distric Moncong Loe in South Sulawesi, currently still use traditional methods for planting rice seeds, resulting in a lot of energy and time consumption and resulting in high operational costs. The development of the construction design for a rice seed planting tool using an inverter electric motor aims to streamline the time for planting rice seeds and increase the number of seeds planted compared to the previous tool for partners to use in their rice fields. The method used in designing the rice seed planting tool is to design the tool components which are lighter because they use an inverter electric motor as the driving force, the machine wheels are removable, and overall, the machine construction is more practical. After testing the performance of the tool in rice fields, it showed that the tool whose construction design had been developed could plant rice seedlings on 1 Ha of land in 16 hours, the clamp construction mechanism could function better, and this tool could be operated by one person easily. Key Words: planter, rice seedling, pincer, effective