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 |
Onion harvesting machinery like all other farm equipment has passed through various stages of development. Our research work had focused on ease of handling and harvesting of onion in less time for small land holders at low cost by considering different factors as power requirement, cost of equipment, ease of operation and time of operation. Self-propelled onion digger required only one person to operate. Our Design objective is to come up with a self-propelled onion digger that was easily transportable, durable, easy to operate and maintainable for small farmer. By conventional method of harvesting one ha of land requires 96 man-hours, which accounts for Rs.4800/ha. Thus, keeping this in view to reduce labor cost, we developed the machine of cost Rs.15,584 which can harvest one ha of land in 8 hours. The maximum digging efficiency of the self-propelled onion digger is 97 % and minimum plant damage percentage is 1.67 %.The savings in cost and time by using self-propelled onion digger compared with traditional method of harvesting is 81.9% and 91.3%.
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