1Department of Mechanical Engineering, Umm Al-Qura University, Makkah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
2Department of Mechanical Engineering, R and D Centre, Bangalore, India
Online published on 27 February, 2018.
More than sixty percent of Indians is depended on agriculture and State Government for development of agricultural sector has accorded high priority to elevate and boost rural economy. Potato seed being vital input to agriculture, endless efforts are being made to assure availability of quality foods grains to farmers in order to sustain the agricultural development and best vegetables to consumer end. In the present situation, the demand of quality potatoes is very high and our proposed potato planting machine will be more helpful to this industry. In view of above, our work has been formulated with the objective to produce quality potato of paddy through scientific methods and adopting suitable processing methods through development of potato planting machine. The paper presents theoretical aspects regarding the kinematics and dynamics of the potato planting machine and features we have implemented all that is required to sowing and planting of potato seed, which includes tilling, planting, fertilizing and ditching of soil all process in a single operation. The outlook and prediction of high growth of crop of cultivators are very high because intensive soil cultivation requires consistency and reliability. In the meanwhile, cultivators are also expected to work smoothly and cultivate large areas. Our design competes with all these expectations to aid cultivators. They intensively tilt the soil while destroying annoying clods. The soil thus becomes loose and can be used for crease forming and create the basis for a harvest with a higher yield. Furthermore, our prototype model can be converted to full width cultivators with a few manual actions to planting. The machine which we have invented is working properly and the design and fabrication is matched the requirement. The future scope of this work; we have implemented all the process for single row. Whereas, our machine can only support for one single operation and this can be expanded by placing two different tillers, so that, we can sow the seeds in two rows and four rows at a time by increasing the tiller in the same machine. By using the springs it can make it as a flexible.
