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 |
Globally every year over 80,000 square kmof agricultural lands are covered with plastic mulch films. These benefits lead to higher yields (by up to 100% for certain crops) in early duration crops (by upto one month) and in some case the ability to grow certain crop, which would not be possible without the mulch film. The performance of the newly developed manual mulching machine was evaluated. The average draft recorded 45.7 kgf was at an angle of inclination of 35.50° with speed of operation varies from 1.3 to 1.36 km/hr. The average power required for developed mulch laying machine was found to be 447.86 N. The actual field capacity of mulch laying machine was found to be 0.113 ha/h, whereas the theoretical field capacity was found to be 0.162 ha/h. It was found that the actual field capacity of developed mulch laying machine varies by 0.1 in comparison to manually mulch laying.
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