Successful Case of Peony Transplanter Machine to South Africa

Recently, we sent a 6-row tractor peony transplanter machine to a South African cut flower grower. This equipment addresses the core issues of low efficiency in manual transplanting, unstable planting quality, and insufficient equipment, thereby helping growers improve production efficiency and ensure the timely delivery of export orders.

Brief introduction of customer background

South Africa is the fourth largest exporter of cut flowers in the world, with an annual export value of more than 1 billion dollars. As a high-end flower material, peony has a high demand in the European winter market (November to February).

The client, a medium-sized local peony grower, specializes in the export of high-quality flower stems, and has been expanding its annual planting area.

However, peony planting relies on a large number of laborers to complete the process of trenching, seedling placement, and mulching during the optimal transplanting period of just 3 weeks, which often affects the planting progress and yield quality due to labor shortage.

Main problems faced by customers

• Low efficiency of manual transplanting: each person can complete 0.5 mu per day at most, which is far from being able to meet the demand for large-scale planting.
• Unstable planting quality: the depth and spacing of plants are not the same, resulting in low seedling emergence rate and less than 50% quality of flower stems.
• Lack of suitable machinery: the local hilly terrain restricts the use of large equipment, small and medium-sized farms are under great cost pressure, and there is a lack of composite transplanters in the market to meet the needs of peony cultivation.

Customized peony transplanter machine features

The customer finally chose our 2ZBX-6 tractor peony transplanter machine and put forward a number of customized requirements to ensure that the equipment was highly suitable for seedling transplanting needs.

• This machine can complete the following tasks at one time: rotary plowing → ridging → transplanting → laying drip irrigation belt.
• The height of the ridge is 10cm, the width of the ridge is 90cm, and 3 rows of drip irrigation are laid to ensure accurate irrigation. Reduce the number of times you enter the ground, avoid soil condensation, and protect the soil strength.
• The planting depth can be adjusted to 4-8cm to meet the agronomic requirement of “shallow planting” of peony.
• The use of cup-type planting device, combined with the fence to support seedlings, ensures that the upright rate of seedlings is >95%, effectively reducing seedling injury and seedling fall.
• With 6 rows of synchronized operation, 200 mu of peony planting can be completed in only 20 days, which is about 8 times more efficient than manual planting.
• This peony transplanter machine’s tractorized structure matches the local tractor with a high popularity rate of more than 60 hp, and there is no need to purchase an additional power platform.

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