Name
Ksendzov Valentin Alexandrovich
Scholastic degree
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Academic rank
professor
Honorary rank
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Organization, job position
Ryazan State Agrotechnological University named after P.A. Kostychev
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Articles count: 2
Potato is cultivated in 130 countries on an area of over
18 million hectares; it annually gives more than 300
million tons of tubers. The share of the Russian
Federation accounts is about 11% ... 14% of total
production. The resulting potatoes consumed in food, animal feed, technical purposes, seed fund. According
to the Ministry of agriculture of Russia, the largest
number of potatoes in our country (89 %) is produced in
peasant farms and personal farms of citizens, the area of
cultivation of which make up about 2.7 million hectares.
At such farms for the harvest, they use mainly potatodiggers,
followed by selection of crops manually. The
use of diggers in small areas of planting is more costefficiently
in relation to the harvesting combine. In
addition, the parameters requested for ATT to damage
potatoes when harvesting with the diggers (3%) are
higher than during harvesting by combine harvester
(5%). As practice shows, for the use of cleaning units,
even under optimal harvesting conditions in the hopper
of the combine, there are soil and vegetable impurities.
There are many different devices intended to localize
the problem. Based on the foregoing, we can conclude
that it is necessary to pay considerable attention to the
quality of work of excavating working bodies, because
it affects the productivity of the functioning of the
whole machine. Currently, there are widespread potato
aggregates with the receiving part, equipped with side
disks, spaced along the edges of the plowshares. The
disks cut off the raised layer of soil from between the
rows. This entails improving the performance of the
potato harvester. The most efficient and economical
from the point of view of energy consumption, is the
work of passive disks with hooks. The quality of potato
harvesters depends on the design and performance of
excavating bodies. The proposed design solution for an
excavating body increases the productivity of harvesting
machines
Material and technical resources form a large part of the
costs in agricultural production and determine the level
of intensity of agriculture, productivity and
competitiveness of the industry. The most important
role in agricultural production is played by transport
operation, from productivity and quality of which
directly depends the volume and the grade of final
products. More preferable is tractor transport,
particularly for on-farm transport, taking into account
the impact of navigation systems on the ground.
Continuous growth in the saturation of tractors carried
out around the world, improves the performance of
tractor transport aggregate by increasing their capacity and speed, either on the road or in the field. However, if
you increase the saturation of tractors, it encounters
problems related to the deterioration of the
controllability of the tractor and transport unit. The
reduced controllability leads to an increase of damage to
transported agricultural products owing to increased
oscillatory processes in the system of "road – trailer –
tractor – operator" when driving on-farm trails,
deteriorating the smoothness and braking properties.
Especially sharp these questions relate to transportation
of easy-to-damage agricultural products at farm
transportation. The feature of data traffic lies in the
sharp drop in grade products (products receive
numerous mechanical damages, deteriorating its quality,
and lose marketability and accordingly reduced its cost).
Influence on fruit and vegetable products of unfavorable
factors can lead not only to a dramatic loss of quality at
the time of transportation, but also reduce the resistance
during further storage. To solve the problems emerging
when increasing the saturation of tractors, we have
proposed devices, allowing reducing negative impact on
the production of elevated oscillatory processes, to
increase the permeability and straightness of movement
of tractor-transport unit