Kara Mustafa Cengiz Tarim Makinalari

It is the most popular equipment used on all kinds of soil. It smoothes and loosens the cropland and removes weeds; it can run easily even on highly grassy fields. It makes smoothing on fields that hasn't been fairly ploughed and has deep scars. It can be also utilized in stubble-ploughing and fallow processing. Cultivators can be used as itself, while they can be combined with other equipments, usually with rotary harrows.. Processes such as loosening, plowing the field, ripping clods on field, ripping weeds and unearthing their roots constitute main functions of the cultivator. While cultivators can be used for seeds that were planted on the surface or mineral fertilizers to penetrate into soil; stubble ploughing processes can also be made with their heavier versions. It is proven with researches that cultivators are essential equipments for soil cultivation progresses in dry farming of our country. Doubling and triplet processes are made with cultivators, that are equipped with sweep formed plowshares. Preparation of seed beds after harvesting root crops such as potatoes and beetroots without cultivation with a plough is only possible with cultivators. Being the most important equipment in ploughless agriculture and minimum soil cultivation, cultivators can be used in hoeing of plant interrows (cotton, beetroot, corn), when required adjustments are made.