Development of a pincette-type pick-up device for automatic transplanting of greenhouse seedlings

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 547-556

  Mao, Hanping ^a   Han, Luhua ^a   Hu, Jianping ^a   Kumi, Francis ^a  

^a JIANGSU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic; Greenhouse; Seedlings; Transplanting; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

VEGETABLES;

AUTOMATIC; SEEDLINGS; TRANSPLANTING;

GREENHOUSES;

EID: 84908505007     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.13031/aea.30.10550     Document Type: Article

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