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Gurukul's Agricultural Engineering Module 3: Weeding Equipment

The document discusses various agricultural equipment used for harvesting, threshing, weeding, spraying, planting crops, managing crop residue, and transplanting vegetables. It provides details on the names, sizes, and work capacities of different implements that can be operated manually, with animals, powered tillers, tractors, or self-propelled machines.

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Gurukul's Agricultural Engineering Module 3: Weeding Equipment

The document discusses various agricultural equipment used for harvesting, threshing, weeding, spraying, planting crops, managing crop residue, and transplanting vegetables. It provides details on the names, sizes, and work capacities of different implements that can be operated manually, with animals, powered tillers, tractors, or self-propelled machines.

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 Gurukul’s agricultural engineering module 3

 Harvesting and threshing consumes about 10 – 35 % of the total energy for


farming.
 Weeding Equipment
 Khurpi (a hand hoe ) take 300 – 400 man hours per hectare. Takes more
time so yield is loss by 20 – 60 %.
 Wheel hoe and peg type weeder are more efficient than khurpi take 25 –
110 hours per hectare.

S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity


No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(animal
operated)
1. Three tyned 600 0.2 5
Sweep/ cultivator
2. Dora 300 0.1 10
S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity
No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(manually
operated)
1. Gruber 150 - 200 0.012 80
2. Dry land peg 150 - 200 0.025 40
Weeder
3. CIAE twin wheel 150 - 200 0.025 40
hoe
4. PAU wheel hoe 150 - 200 0.035 30

S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity


No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(power tiller
operated)
1. 3 tyned 1000 0.2 5
cultivator/sweep
S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity
No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(tractor
operated)
1. 9 – 11 tyned tiller 2500 0.45 2 – 2.5
2. 5 tyned sweep 2500 0.45 2 – 2.5

S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity


No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(Self propelled
Weeder )
1. CIAE/TNAU 500 0.125 8
power weeder
 Equipment for Spraying and dusting operations

S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity


No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(manually
operated)
1. Hand 14 liters 0.095 10.5
compression
sprayer
2. Lever operated 13 – 16 litters 0.095 10.5
Knapsack sprayer
3. Foot sprayer 0.165 6
4. Duster 4 – 5 kg 0.25 4
5. Controlled 1 kg 0.22 5
droplet sprayer
S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity
No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(power
operated)
1. Knapsack 5 liters 0.22 5
sprayer cum -
duster
2. Stationary power 5 – 10 litters 0.35 3
operated sprayer

S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity


No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(tractor
operated)
1. Tractor operated 5000 mm 0.5 2
sprayer
S Name of the Size (mm) Work Capacity
No. Implement ha/h h/ha
(self propelled)
1. High clearance 10000 mm 0.5 – 1.0 1-2
sprayer

 Zero tillage
 Development of zero tiilage seed/fertilizers drill at GBPAUAT
pant nagar UP.
 Placed Fertilizers at depth of 7 – 10 cm.
 Blades (knife shaped) distance 2.5cm.
 In zero tillage sowing depth should be below b/w 5 – 7 cm of
surface for encourage germination.
 Previous crop stubble should not be allowed to exceed 15 cm.
 Zero tillage save irrigation water by 30 – 40 %.
 CROP RESIDUE MANAGEMENT

 ROTO tillage
 Roto tillage is done by rotavator, which combine both primary
and secondary tillage.
 Saving 60 – 70 % of operational time
 55 – 65 % fuel consumption .
 Rotavator powered by tractor PTO.

 Till plant machine


 It is a minimum tillage equipment, capable of sowing and
applying fertilizers without prior preparation of seedbed.

 STRIP TILL DRILL


 In this machine seeds are drilled directly in a narrow tilled strip in
a single pass.
 Most suitable for subsequent crops after rice/soyabean for timely
planting in a single operation.
 INCLINED PLATE PLANTER
 It facilitates uniform placement of single seed in soil and therefore
helps in saving of costly seed.
 Six row tractor mounted unit the field capacity is about 0.60ha/h.

 PNEUMATIC PRECISION PLANTER


 Used to place uniform seeds, maintain fixed row spacing.
 It has provision for drilling fertilizers simultaneously with seed.

 SUAGRCANE SETT CUTTER PLANTER


 Required 45 HP tractor
 Working capacity about 0.20 ha/h .

 RICE SEEDER
 Direct seeding of paddy in puddle soil .
 Pre germinated seeds (24 h soaking + 12 – 24h incubation) are sown
in puddle soil(1-2 days after puddling)
 Normal seed rate – 50 – 70 kg/ha.
 POTATO PLANTER
 The picker has 12 notches.
 Working capacity – 0.20 – 0.40 ha/h.
 Tuber distance – 200 – 450 mm
 Row spacing – 600 mm
 Depth of planting – 100 – 200 mm
 Save 50 – 60 % of labour
 Saving time 80 – 85 %
 Saving cost of operation – 50 – 60 %

 VEGETABLE TRANSPLANTER (MANUALLY)

 Labour requirement varies from 10 – 30 man days /hectare


 For onion it require 50 – 100 man days/ha.

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