Development of tray type nursery seeding equipment. (2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vinosh, M.; Senthil Kumar, S.; Nithish, D.; Naveen, G.
• Is Part Of: Materials today. Volume 37(2021)Supplement Part 2
• Page Start: 3209
• Page End: 3212
• Publication Date: 2021
• Subjects: Seed sowing -- Planting machines -- Seed handling -- Tray -- Nursery seeding; Materials science -- Congresses -- Periodicals; 620.1
• DOI: 10.1016/j.matpr.2020.09.066
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2214-7853

Abstract

Abstract: In India, near about 70% people are dependent upon agriculture. So the agricultural system in India should be advanced to reduce the efforts of farmers. Various numbers of operations are performed in the agriculture field like seed sowing, weeding, cutting, pesticide spraying etc. Very basic and significant operation is seed sowing. But the present methods of seed sowing are problematic because the equipment used for seed sowing are very difficult and inconvenient to handle. So there is a need to develop equipment which will reduce the efforts of farmers. This system introduces a control mechanism which aims to drop seeds at particular position with specified distance between two seeds and lines while sowing. The drawbacks of the existing sowing machine will be removed successfully in this automatic machine. Multiple operation can be done easily and no need of labours and no need of wages to be given to the labours. Energy of the farmers will be gained. Time consumption is much less than any other equipment.