TAILIEUCHUNG - Performance evaluation of battery powered reaper

Harvesting of crop is one of the important agricultural operations. The availability and cost of labour during harvesting season is the serious problem. Timely harvesting of the crop is vital to achieve better quality and higher yield of the crop. To ensure efficient and timely harvesting operation manually drawn battery powered reaper was developed at CAET, JAU, Junagadh. Performance evaluation of developed machine was carried out at different forward speeds ( km/h, km/h and km/h) and different cutter bar speeds (200 rpm, 300 rpm and 400 rpm). The maximum effective field capacity and field efficiency was found ha/h and % respectively. The maximum cutting and conveying efficiency of the developed reaper was found % and % respectively. | EXCELLENT PUBLISHERS International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 8 Number 07 2019 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Performance Evaluation of Battery Powered Reaper . Tanti . Jhala and . Jadav Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology Junagadh Agricultural University Junagadh Gujarat India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Manually drawn reaper Battery powered reaper Reaper Article Info Accepted 15 JUne 2019 Available Online 10 July 2019 Harvesting of crop is one of the important agricultural operations. The availability and cost of labour during harvesting season is the serious problem. Timely harvesting of the crop is vital to achieve better quality and higher yield of the crop. To ensure efficient and timely harvesting operation manually drawn battery powered reaper was developed at CAET JAU Junagadh. Performance evaluation of developed machine was carried out at different forward speeds km h km h and km h and different cutter bar speeds 200 rpm 300 rpm and 400 rpm . The maximum effective field capacity and field efficiency was found ha h and respectively. The maximum cutting and conveying efficiency of the developed reaper was found and respectively. Introduction The crop cutting is important stage in agriculture field. Two types of crop cutting methods are prevailing in India. Currently Indian farmers use conventional method for crop cutting . cutting crop manually using labour but this method is time consuming so as to minimize the time required for cutting the crop and also to avoid the bending posture of the labour while cutting and health hazard related to long term working in bending posture A thought has been given to design a device that cuts the crop with higher amount of ease and comfort. It will reduce the cost .

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• Manually drawn reaper
• Battery powered reaper
• Battery powered reaper
• Performance evaluation
• Labour during harvesting season