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Sowing is one of the very crucial operation in crop production. Seed drills and planters are commonly used for sowing. Use of multi-crop planter for sowing of various field crops has many advantages over the use of traditional seed drill. For validation and updation of planter technology, it is necessary to evaluate the performance multi-crop planter for sowing of different crops in the field. Hence, in present research work, field trials of multi-crop planter were conducted on the JNKVV farm and on the farmer’s field at nine different locations in total 10.20 ha area of Jabalpur district for sowing of the gram, soybean and wheat crops. The results of laboratory calibration of planter for soybean, wheat and gram was found the internal in injury of seed after calibration was in the range of 0.45 - 0.85 per cent. The results of field trials indicated that the field capacity of planter was 0.79, 0.55 and 0.75 ha/h for soybean, wheat and gram crop respectively. Field efficiency of multi-crop planter found were 82, 84 and 80 per cent for soybean, wheat and gram crop respectively. The variation in quantity of seeds dropped from different seed tubes was 5 to 6 per cent. Planter gave the fairly uniform row to row and plant to plant distance.  The average speed of operation under the vertisol soil (between 13.6 to 14.4% of soil moisture) was in the range of 3.4 - 3.8 kmph. There was 17-20 % seed saving as compare to traditional seed drill. The overall performance of the tractor drawn multi-crop planter for sowing of wheat, gram and soybean was found to be satisfactory.

Keywords: Seed drill, Planter, Multi-crop planter, Field capacity, Field efficiency