Development of the Pick-up and Transportation System for Onion on the Small Scale Paddy Field

The semi-mounted type onion picker with forklift was developed in order to improve the onion harvesting system on a small scale paddy field. 1. This machine picks up the onions, made in windrow on top of each row, and puts them into small containers (20kg capacity), and them trans-fers 300kg onions together to a truck. The dimensions of this picker was 2.0m length, 1.5m width, 1.7m height and 0.7m working width. 2. The operation of the system using this machine needs three workers, that resulted in high field capacity of 4.1h/10a and light labor requirement for harvest work.