# substrate block

Chinese Institute Unveils Fully Automatic Transplanter for Substrate-Block Vegetable Seedlings, Promising Big Labor and Cost Savings

A team at the Nanjing Agricultural Mechanization Research Institute has developed a fully automatic transplanter for substrate-block vegetable seedlings that links five automated stages to reduce seedling damage and raise planting speed. The machine can be run by two people to cover about 8–10 mu per day, is claimed to be eight times faster than manual transplanting and to save more than 400 yuan per mu in costs.