Design and Benefit Analysis of Mechanized Experiment for Facility Cultivation

Low level of mechanization and automation in facility agriculture seriously restrict development of facility agriculture in China．Affected by facility structure, natural conditions（light, ventilation, etc.）, planting habits and other factors, most of solar greenhouses in Shanxi Province are mostly about 20 m in the north-south ridge span, and north-south short ridge cultivation is not suitable for mechanized production operations, which seriously restricts improvement of mechanization level of facility agriculture．In 2022, Shanxi Agricultural Machinery Development Center and China Agricultural University conducted an experiment on tomato production in Qixian County and Xinjiang County of Shanxi Province, aiming to find a production mode suitable for machine-oriented cultivation of facilities in Shanxi Province．In the experiment, benefits of east-west ridge to high ridge cultivation mode and artificial north-south ridge to tomato production were compared and analyzed．The east-west ridge to mechanized tomato production could not only save labor and time to a great extent, but also have strong seedling, wide leaves, high fruit hanging rate and no reduction in yield．