To design & develop a Three–row Pneumatic Precision Planter for Vegetable Crops (row crops) suiting to Indian conditions and prevailing agronomic/cultural practices.
Welcome, Tuesday , Mar , 31 , 2026 | 16:25 IST
Welcome, Tuesday , Mar , 31 , 2026 | 16:25 IST
DG, CSIR visited the Underwater Robotic Test Facility at CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur on 26 February and witnessed a live demonstration of the “Proof of Concept Underwater Homing & Docking System”
The National Symposium on Advanced Functional Coatings & Surface Engineering Technologies (AFCSET-2026) was organized at CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur on March 13–14, 2026
CSIR-CMERI, Durgapur and IIT-ISM, Dhanbad formally signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 10th March 2026
CSIR SMART VILLAGE initiative was inaugurated on March 16, 2026, at Kusunpur village in Kendrapara district, Odisha
69th Foundation Day of CSIR-CMERI was celebrated with great pride on 26th February, 2026 To design & develop a Three–row Pneumatic Precision Planter for Vegetable Crops (row crops) suiting to Indian conditions and prevailing agronomic/cultural practices.
Timeliness of operations and efficient use of critical inputs is the key to achieve higher levels of quality and productivity ensuring higher profits. Seeds are the most important and costly input in the modern production of vegetable crops. Consequently, planting for proper plant establishment is one of the key components of production system of vegetable crops. For optimum plant population with the desired planting geometry, uniform distribution and precision placement of seeds/seedlings are the critical parameters. Metering of single seeds at predetermined intervals is carried out by different mechanisms, viz. pneumatic singulation, belt seeding, finger pickup, and horizontal & inclined plates as well as vertical rotors with cells. Out of these mechanisms, pneumatic singulation using suction pressure is the best method for seed singulation of small vegetable seeds. Certain advantages with regard to the selection of single seed.





