1Department of Agricultural Engineering, School of Agriculture and Bio-Engineering, Centurion University of Technoogy and Management, Paralakhemundi - 761 211, Orissa
2College of Agricultural Engineering, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur - 482 004, Madhya Pradesh
3Agricultural Engineering, College and Research Institute, Kumulur - 621 712, Tamil Nadu
4Department of Crop Management, Agricultural College and Research Institute, Thanjavur - 614 902, Tamil Nadu
*Corresponding authors E mail: korla.harshavardhan@cutm.ac.in
Online published on 6 December, 2022.
In order to increase production and productivity of vegetables a manually operated plastic mulch sheet and drip laying machine was designed, developed and evaluated in the actual field conditions. The total time required to lay mulch sheet with developed machine was 21.27 man-h/ha at a speed of 1.05 km/h. The theoretical field capacity, actual field capacity and field efficiency of the developed prototype was observed as 0.114 ha/h, 0.094 ha/h and 82.45% respectively.
