Design of animal drawn cereal grains no-till planter

Authors

  • Mehari Ghebreyesus Mehari Ghebreyesus Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Yared Tesfay Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Luwam Habteab Luwam Habteab Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Mehari Eyob Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Yonatan Beyene Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Rteei Tewelde Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Jawed Ahmad Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.
  • Syed Danish Yaseen Naqvi Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan Budaun- 243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.48165/jefa.2023.18.02.34

Keywords:

Planter, animal drawn, tiller machine, tillage

Abstract

The development of no-till system in Eritrea presents a significant opportunity to achieve earlier and more timely planting. Tillage wastes a lot of time, energy and a lot of money in the form of fuel, labor and equipment concerning with the life style of Eritrean farmers.
Therefore, to solve this problem animal drawn no-till planter is designed to make the farming operation easy and efficient, simple to operate, it reduces the amount of work for tillage and it combines several steps of tillage in machine.
No-till system can be designed in different forms of tractor mounted, manual operated and animal drawn planter. These mechanized systems would introduce additional barriers to adoption including the high cost of investment, availability and cost of fuel and the need to use syndication ownership models. So due to the economical standard living of local farmers animal drawn no-till planter is more efficient for small holder farmers.
Animal drawn no-till planter is designed with a pulling force 73.5kgf: walking speed of 0.6m/s and with the frame dimension of 1000mmx450mmx50mm. The equipment’s used in this design are made locally available, making the overall cost cheap and affordable to the farmers in contrast with no-till planter imported from overseas so that farmers do not face difficulties in obtaining these planters and providing a basic saving from budgeting a large amount of currency for importing a conventional tiller machine.
To attain better accuracy, fabrication of the designed animal drawn planter in the actual field with local materials is advisable to give major concern in the future work. And also, testing and evaluation performance of the animal drawn no-till planter is highly recommended.

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Published

2023-07-09

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 2 (2023): Journal of Eco-Friendly Agriculture (Jul-Dec) 2023

Section

Articles

How to Cite

Mehari Ghebreyesus, M.G., Tesfay, Y., Luwam Habteab, L.H., Eyob, M., Beyene, Y., Tewelde, R., … Naqvi, S.D.Y. (2023). Design of animal drawn cereal grains no-till planter. Journal of Eco-Friendly Agriculture, 18(2), 403–411. https://doi.org/10.48165/jefa.2023.18.02.34
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