Ukrainian Black Sea Region Agrarian Science

Abstract

Directing the production of seeds of vegetable and fruit crops can provide an opportunity to introduce industrial and intensive mechanisms, which are designed for complex mechanization and automation of production processes in seed production. Improvement and development of the field of seed production of vegetable and fruit crops will help to ensure agricultural production with seeds of own production, which will significantly contribute to the reduction of the cost price and the increase in the productivity of the production of various crops. In current conditions, it is difficult to create specialized farms that produce seeds of vegetable and melon crops, at the same time, obtaining their own seeds by producers growing melons and other crops will make it possible to reduce the costs of producing these crops. the creation of modern seed-separating machines and flow lines that meet the requirements of modern production and belong to complex technical systems requires conducting scientific research on the interaction of working bodies with the technological mass of fruits, the laws of technological processes. It is important to substantiate the principles of operation, structural parameters and kinematic modes of machines and their constituent parts. Taking this into account, conducting such studies is relevant and expedient, and they have important national economic significance.Thus, the purpose of the article is to substantiate the implementation of the improved design of the separator of seeds of vegetable and tomato crops as part of the technological line, to conduct comparative tests of the basic and experimental separators according to the main indicators of the technological process to confirm the effectiveness of the introduction of the sample into the technological line. The test of the improved design of the seed separator in various technological configurations was carried out on the basis of the technological line for the selection of seeds of vegetable and tomato crops: with a serial separator, with an experimental separator, complete with a MOS-300 machine. Comparative characteristics of such indicators as productivity, seed loss, the content of impurities in seeds, and seed damage are given. The implementation of a seed separator in the technological line for extracting seeds of melon crops is substantiated

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