Centro tecnológico Cartif

Machine for vertical ploughing and soil cultivation for the sowing

A machine dragged by a tractor that does the vertical ploughing of the land for the soil cultivation once the harvest of the product is completed and without the inconveniences of the current systems and farming implements.

The machine will contribute with some attributes to the present process of arable lands that will consist of:

• Cost reducing for the farmer with regard to:
• Machinery: farm works that currently need for or five farming implements will be done with just one machine.
• Time, fuel, and manpower: with just one pass over the soil, it will be ready for the sowing.
• Soil conditioning by the continuous use of this machine, because the vertical ploughing tends to avoid the erosion produced by traditional methods of horizontal cultivation, like mouldboard ploughing.