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All over the world and in our country, the increasing awareness on the
conservation of soil and water resources, together with the demands of reducing
production costs, made it necessary for researchers to turn to alternative produc
tion ways in agriculture. As a result of these searches, it has been revealed that
conservation tillage methods should become widespread as an alternative to tra
ditional tillage method, where field traffic and fuel consumption are high, and
environmental effects such as carbon emissions, soil degradation and air pollu
tion. Despite years of research and government support, no-tillage, which is one
of the sustainable agricultural practices and applied on an area of approximately
200 million hectares in the world, has unfortunately not been sufficiently adopted
in Türkiye. Strip-tillage, which creates a soil environment that enhances seed ger
mination, is a new alternative to no-tillage in areas where poorly drained soils are
dominant. In this context, the strip tillage and sowing method is a combination of
traditional and no-tillage methods and provides both environmental and economic
benefits by saving time, labour and fuel as an alternative to the traditional method.
Where soil moisture conditions are suitable, strip-tillage creates narrow-width
tilled strips, traditionally in the fall, to increase early spring soil evaporation and
soil temperature in the top 5 cm of the soil. When the previous studies on sowing
with strip tillage are examined, it is seen that it is frequently applied in countries
where agriculture is developed in the world, but there is not enough research and
application area in Türkiye. In countries where agriculture is developed, it is seen
that the strip tillage and sowing methodisappliedasacombinationoftwoseparate
machines in a one-pass (tillage and sowing). In the studies carried out in Türkiye
(strip tillage and sowing), it is applied separately in two stages. Both sowing appli
cation and strip-tillage can be performed in one-pass. The basic requirements for
strip-tillage to be effective are accuracy in matching tillage equipment on the tool
bar with the planter and placement of seeds in the tilled zones. In this study, an
in-row of pneumatic spacing drill, mounted on a single chassis that can reduce the
f
ield traffic to a one-pass, is designed and simulated