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Design and development of a digging machine for turmeric and ginger crop<br />

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Title Statement Design and development of a digging machine for turmeric and ginger crop<br />
 
Added Entry - Uncontrolled Name Narender; Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, COAE&T, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar, Haryana 125 004 India
Shrivastava, Atul Kumar; Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, COA, Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh 482 004, India
Indian Council Of Agricultural Research
 
Uncontrolled Index Term Mechanical engineering, Agricultural engineering
Development, Digging, Ginger, Turmeric
 
Summary, etc. <p>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</p>
 
Publication, Distribution, Etc. Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences (IJEMS)
2022-07-08 17:18:18
 
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Data Source Entry Indian Journal of Engineering and Materials Sciences (IJEMS); ##issue.vol## 29, ##issue.no## 2 (2022): IJEMS-APRIL 2022
 
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