The facilities of using an alternative hoeing unit in sunflower production

Hoeing operaion which is one of the most significant stages of sunflower production which is quite important in plant production in our country has gained importance with the effort of minimizing chemical use in present conditions. Thus this study was conduted to obtain the activity of a unit which was developed to ramp up the hoeing operations and to be an altenative to hoeing units which are used to increase the productivity of wed control in sunflower production. The study was executed in Hayrabolu, Tekirdağ between 2017 and 2018. In this study two different hoeing machines which have fertilizer equipment with standart and enhanced units were compared in terms of success in weed combat, plant development and productivity. At the end of the study the results obtained from the hoeing machine with enhanced unit have positive effects and drew attention in terms of the heights of the legs with regard to hoeing time especially making it flexible under diffucult condions.