1 TOE on NATP – AMDD, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Nabibagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal (INDIA)-462038.
2 Department Of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, G.B. Pant University of Agriculture & Technology PANTNAGAR (INDIA)-263145.
The matching implements such as ridger, leveler and two-row seed-drill were developed along with their hitching systems and field performance also carried out in terms of field capacity, field efficiency, draft, fuel consumption and slippage. The field capacity was varied from 0.053 to 0.089 ha/h for ridger and seed drill, for leveler 0.7 to 0.12 ha/h with corresponding field efficiency of 68.72 to 76.71%, 70.98 to 78.75% and 76.63 to 88.24% respectively, at forward speed of power tiller from 2.0 to 3.0 km/h. The draft was found 35.33 to 42.11 kg and 21.89 to 30.44 kg for ridger and leveler respectively, wheel slippage was varied from 15.62 to 18.33% and fuel consumption were also estimated as 1.35 to 1.5 l/h for ridger, leveler and seed drill. The use of modified lightweight power tiller for hill agriculture gave satisfactory performance with matching implements.
lightweight power tiller, two wheel tractor, ridger, leveler and seed drill
