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 |
Farm mechanization is a process which helps in increasing the production by timely farm operation, reducing losses and reducing the cost of operations. Man power and animal power are the major sources of farm power for small and marginal farmers in India. In this study an implement was developed to perform the operations of planting of seeds and application of herbicide simultaneously in order to aid small and marginal farmers to save money and time. It consists of a main frame, seed hoppers, seed metering devices, seed delivery tubes, inverted ‘T’ type furrow openers, sprayers, boom, nozzles, ground wheel, ground wheel lifting mechanism and handle. The developed implement was fabricated with the materials which are available locally at cheap cost. Fabrication cost of the implement was kept at minimum. The average field capacity and mean field efficiency was 0.121 ha/h and 70.70 per cent respectively. The average discharge of boom was 965.2 ml/min at an average pressure of 254.97 kPa. The average cost of operation was determined as Rs. 650 per ha.
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