Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana
Online published on 12 July, 2013.
Performance evaluation of battery powered portable manual cotton picker was carried out on two subjects for three cotton varieties and was compared against manual method of picking. It is a hand operated machine and has a pair of chains with small sharp edged teeth and sprockets and is operated by a light weight 12 V battery. Cotton gets entangled with the chain and is collected and guided into the collection bag. Output capacity of cotton picker varied from 17.0–22.6 kg/day for BT and American cotton varieties. Picking efficiency of manual cotton picker was 68–91% and trash content varied from 1.8–6.1% for all three cotton varieties.
Cotton picker, Efficiency, Output, Trash
