Institute of Agricultural Machinery, NARO

Transplanter, Sprayer and Harvester Testing Section

In this section, testing and appraisal are carried out for rice transplanters, power sprayers, air blast sprayers, combine harvesters, and grain dryers. Moreover, our testing and appraisal covers various types of machinery such as vegetable transplanters, forage harvesters, rice huskers, farm management vehicle and others. Every year we conduct safety tests for about 10 models of rice transplanters, air blast sprayers, combine harvesters as well as grain dryers, and for functional check we cover combine harvesters, air blast sprayers and rice transplanters. Our section also conducts checks on energy conservation performance of grain dryers as IAM Test group 2, covering over 20 models so far. As for energy saving performance of head feeding combine harvesters, testing methods for 4-row type were established in the Fiscal Year 2015, which thereby enabled us to carry out testing of such machinery.

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Unit Leader

Mitsuhiro HORIO


Unit Members

Yasuhiro HARADA

Yoshijiko USUI

Hirofumi YAMASAKI

Masahiro TANAKA

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