Farm Power and Machinery Recommendations / Release

  • Used to break the hard pan formed beneath the soil surface by the continuous use of the rotavator.
  • The depth of operation of subsoiling can be varied from 23 to 45 cm.
  • There is 58% saving over the cost of operation due to combined operation.
  • Time saving is about 48% due to combined operation.
  • The developed turmeric harvester is suitable for digging turmeric rhizomes from raise beds
  • Digging efficiency of this equipment is 98.52 %
  • Saving in labor and time
  • Strong and durable construction
  • Ease in operation
  • Battery electric vehicle operated sprayer satisfactorily transverse in between 30, 45, 60 and more than 90 cm row spacing crops.
  • It is suitable for spraying in the low heighted row crops.
  • It reduces the dependency from costly fissile fuels and promotes the use of green energy
  • It satisfactorily sprays the liquid at bottom top and middle part of the crops.
  • The field efficiency of the sprayer was 1.09 ha/ha whereas the cost of operation
  • It save the labors and time for harvesting of groundnut crop.
  • The average field capacity of groundnut harvester is 0.059 ha/h.
  • Average pod damage percentage was found 4.77%

  • This planter is suitable for planting of cotton seeds precisely at 45 cm and 30 cm seed to seed spacing.

  • There 79.48 per cent saving in cost of operation over traditional method of manual dibbling.

  • The average effective field capacity of the planter was found as 0.43 ha/h. and time required to cover one hector was found to be 2.32 hours

  • The average field capacity of battery electric weeder was observed as 0.11 ha/h and the cost of operation was Rs. 654/ha.

  • It reduces the dependency from costly fissile fuels and promotes the use of green energy and it is usefull for small and marginal formers.

  • As compare to bullock drown hoe the cost of saving was 27.33% and 73.4% over the manual drawn wheel hoe.

  • Cotton stalks shredding, stubbles uprooting and strip ploughing these three operations are performed in a single pass of tractor.
  • Two rows are covered by the developed cotton stubble uprooter attachment and maximum field capacity of 0.351 ha/h was observed and which was higher than that of commercially available shredder cum uprooter.
  • The depth of operation of 200 mm was found sufficient to uproot almost cent percent cotton stubbles
  • Saving in cost of operation was observed 30.06 % over the traditional practice of cotton stalks uprooting by tractor operated V-blade