Transplanters greatly reduce time required to transplant seedlings compared to manual transplanting.
Among the crops that are transplanted with transplanters are strawberries, vegetables, tomatoes, cabbages, tobacco and rice.
Semi-automatic mechanical transplanters are a common type, which can be self-propelled, or towed by a tractor at a low speed.
A row of three to six operators feed seedlings from germination trays into hoppers which feed into the delivery mechanism.
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