National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Burning of crop residues generates large amount of pollutants leads to the cardiorespiratory diseases. Also, it has negative impact on organic matter, nitrogen and other micro and macro soil nutrients. Soil incorporation of crop residues is one of the best alternatives to the crop residue burning. Sunflower, having most of the cultivable area in Karnataka and Maharashtra has proved to be very beneficial for the improvement of soil productivity. The current research work focuses on the evaluation of the small tractor operated crop residue slasher for incorporation of sunflower stalks into the soil. The various performance parameters were tested on the field. It was found that mean length of cut during the test was11.5 cm. Average slashing efficiency was observed to be 88.20 per cent. The effective working speed of slasher was found to be 1.99 km/h. The fuel consumption litre per hour was observed to be 4.6 lit/h. The effective field capacity, theoretical field capacity and field efficiency of machine was found to be 0.11 ha/h, 0.17 ha/h and 64.7 per cent respectively for forward speed of 2.90 km/h.
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