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 |
Fodder harvesting is a tedious operation in agriculture field. In India, agriculture is facing serious challenges of scarcity of agricultural labour not only in peak seasons but almost throughout the year. It is very time consuming and stressful operation. A manually drown engine powered fodder crop harvester was developed in the department of FMPE at CAET, JAU, Junagadh. Three different forward speed (0.3-0.6, 0.6-0.9 and 0.9-1.2 km/h) were used for the test performance. The maximum cutting efficiency (96.06 %), field efficiency (81.47 %) and minimum plant damage (7.08 %) were found at speed range of 0.6 - 0.9 km/h. The total cost saving of developed fodder crop harvester was found 58.07 % as compare to manual harvesting.
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