422514

Effect Of Mulching Soil with Garden Waste on Weed Growth

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Last updated: 27 Apr 2025

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Agricultural engineering and bioengineering systems.

Abstract

This study aims to reduce the growth of weeds among orchard trees using an orchard tree waste chipping machine after developing it under three levels of cutting length ratio (≤3 cm - 3 to 5 cm - ≥5 cm), four levels of cutting diameter ratio (≤1 cm - 1 to 3 cm - 3 to 5 cm - ≥5 cm), four levels of distribution efficiency and four levels of cutting efficiency. The study was conducted at forward speed (1.8 km/h), moisture content (40%), number of knives 32, and rotation speed 2600 rpm for the cylindrical chipper. The evaluation was conducted regarding the effect of distribution efficiency, cutting efficiency (%), and cutting length ratios (%). The results can be summarized as follows: Increasing distribution efficiency from 75 to 95% and cutting efficiency from 85 to 95% led to a decrease in the amount of weeds, and increasing the percentage of cutting length and cutting diameters led to an increase in the amount of weeds at a moisture content of 40.0% (gram weight) and the number of cutting knives 32.

DOI

10.21608/jsaes.2025.359455.1127

Keywords

machines, Garden Waste, Weed, Knife, orchard

Authors

First Name

Tarek

Last Name

Fouda

MiddleName

Zaki

Affiliation

Professor and Head of Agricultural Engineering department, Faculty of Agriculture at Tanta University

Email

tfouda628@gmail.com

City

Tanta

Orcid

0000-0001-8705-1908

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ghoname

MiddleName

saied

Affiliation

Agri Eng,Fac of agric,Tanta University

Email

mohamed.ghonaim@agr.tanta.edu.eg

City

Tanta

Orcid

-

First Name

Shimaa

Last Name

Salah

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Agric. Eng. Dept; Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University

Email

shimaa2010atia@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

-

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Ahmed

MiddleName

Abd-elgwad

Affiliation

Senior Researcher, Agricultural Engineering Research Institute, Agricultural Research Center

Email

mohamd_abd23@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

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First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Sultan

MiddleName

Asran

Affiliation

Department of Agricultural Engineering, Faculty of Agriculture, Tanta University, Egypt

Email

asranmohamed722@gmail.com

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Volume

4

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

53011

Issue Date

2025-03-01

Receive Date

2025-02-10

Publish Date

2025-03-01

Page Start

33

Page End

38

Print ISSN

2735-4377

Online ISSN

2785-9878

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https://jsaes.journals.ekb.eg/article_422514.html

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422,514

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Original research paper

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1,858

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Publication Title

Journal of Sustainable Agricultural and Environmental Sciences

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https://jsaes.journals.ekb.eg/

MainTitle

Effect Of Mulching Soil with Garden Waste on Weed Growth

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Created At

27 Apr 2025