UDC 635-133
DOI 10.36461/NP.2023.68.4.018

JUSTIFICATION OF THE DEVICE FOR ORIENTED ONION PLANTING
P.N. Khorev¹, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor; A.V. Machnev², Doctor of Engineering Sciences, Professor; Yu.V. Polyvyany¹, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor; A.V. Yashin¹, Candidate of Engineering Sciences, Associate Professor;
¹Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Penza State Agrarian University”, Penza, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;
²Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Russian University of Biotechnology”, Moscow, Russia

In agriculture, there is a constant need to optimize the processes of planting and caring for crops. One of the most popular and important vegetables that is grown in many countries of the world is onions. Onion pro-duction in the Russian Federation does not fully meet the needs of the population.Unlike commodity production, seed production is a more labor-intensive industry, there is a lot of manual labor, especially for such types of work as breeding, planting onion parent plant, care, seed harvesting, etc. At the current level of mechanization, the cost of manual labor for growing seeds reaches more than 2,000 people per hectare, of which up to 400 people per hectare are needed for planting. The introduction of integrated mechanization of onion growing pro-cess will increase the production of its seeds while reducing costs. However, the domestic industry does not produce special machines for these purposes, hence the problem of developing devices designed to mechanize process of onion seeds production. Increasing the yield of onion seeds, improving their quality indicators and reducing cost can be achieved by improving the technological process of onion parent planting with the devel-opment of a device for oriented onion planting. The article provides a theoretical justification for the constructive calculation of the brush orienting device, determination of the elastic modulus of the bristle material and deter-mination of the bristle parameters.
Keywords: onion, planting, orienting device, bristles

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