Planter

• used for those seeds which are larger in size and cannot be used by usual seed drills.
• A planter consists of: (i) hopper (ii) feed metering device (iii) knock out arrangement (iv) cut-off mechanism (v)furrow opener and (vi) other accessories.
• Depending upon the type of notches on the plates, it is of three types. (i) Edge drop (ii) Flat drop (iii) Hill drop.
• The edge drop carries the seed on edge in the cell of the plate.
• The flat drop carries the seed on a flat in the cell of the plate.
• In hill drop, the cells round the edge of the plate are large enough to admit several seeds at a time.