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Design and development of a digging machine for turmeric and ginger crop

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Title Design and development of a digging machine for turmeric and ginger crop
 
Creator Shrivastava, Atul Kumar
 
Subject Development
Digging
Ginger
Turmeric
 
Description 283-290
The turmeric and ginger crop was harvested by different types of spade, fork or bullock drawn plow. These methods are
very tedious and ergonomically not suitable for the human labour and that results high labour cost and more time and energy
consumption for harvesting of the turmeric and ginger. Due to shortage of labour and high charges demands the
mechanization in harvesting of these two crops. So a tractor operated digger was design and developed for harvesting of the
turmeric and ginger crop, which could dig the crop and separate the fresh crop from soil in field. The digging efficiency of
machine was found to be 98.01 and 97.76 % with the exposed percent of 86.42 and 85.93 for ginger and turmeric crop,
respectively. The per cent decrease in cost of digging by digger in comparison to manual digging was found to be 69.53 and
the break-even point of the digger was 57.59 hours per year. The payback period of root crop digger was less than one year.
 
Date 2022-05-19T05:48:54Z
2022-05-19T05:48:54Z
2022-04
 
Type Article
 
Identifier 0975-1017 (Online); 0971-4588 (Print)
http://nopr.niscair.res.in/handle/123456789/59737
 
Language en
 
Publisher CSIR-NIScPR, India
 
Source IJEMS Vol.29(2) [April 2022]