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Design of Multipurpose Agriculture Machine

This document summarizes the design and fabrication of a manually operated multipurpose agriculture machine. Key features of the machine include a ploughing mechanism used to open furrows in the soil, a chain drive system to transmit power to wheels to move the machine, and a metering plate that disperses seeds into the open furrows at specific distances and depths based on the crop being sown. The machine is powered by a 12V DC motor and battery and is intended to assist farmers in sowing a variety of crops like soybeans, maize, pigeonpeas and groundnuts in a more efficient manner than traditional sowing methods.
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Design of Multipurpose Agriculture Machine

This document summarizes the design and fabrication of a manually operated multipurpose agriculture machine. Key features of the machine include a ploughing mechanism used to open furrows in the soil, a chain drive system to transmit power to wheels to move the machine, and a metering plate that disperses seeds into the open furrows at specific distances and depths based on the crop being sown. The machine is powered by a 12V DC motor and battery and is intended to assist farmers in sowing a variety of crops like soybeans, maize, pigeonpeas and groundnuts in a more efficient manner than traditional sowing methods.
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Annals of R.S.C.B., ISSN:1583-6258, Vol. 25, Issue 5, 2021, Pages.

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Received 15 April 2021; Accepted 05 May 2021.

Design and Fabrication of Manually Operated Multipurpose Agriculture


Machine
L.Ragunath1,T.Keerthivasan2,S. Keerthi Vasan3,K. Marimuthu4, P. Vijayakumar5
1
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, [Link] College of Engineering, Karur,Tamil
Nadu, India.E-mail: [Link]@[Link]
2
Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, [Link] College of Engineering,
Karur,Tamil Nadu, India.
3
UG Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, [Link] College of Engineering, Karur,
Tamil Nadu, India.
4
UG Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, [Link] College of Engineering, Karur,
Tamil Nadu, India.
5
UG Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, [Link] College of Engineering, Karur,
Tamil Nadu, India.

ABSTRACT
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KEYWORDS
Multipurpose Agriculture, Seed Sowing, Reduce Labour Cost, Reduce Time and Water Usage.

Introduction
A Agribusiness is the spine of the Indian economy and it'll continue to remain so for a long time. It ought to reinforce
about 17 percent of world people from 2.3 percent of world geographical zone and 4.5 percent of world water
resources. Theappear altering heightened of 137 percent has enrolled an increase of because it were 25 percent since
1950 to 1951. The net sown run is143 Million hectare. Theelemental objective of sowing operation is to put the seed
and fertilizer in lines at pined for significance and scattering, cover the seeds with soil and provide suitable compaction
over the seed. The recommended thrust to thrust scattering, seed rate, seed to seed scattering and significance of seed
situation alter from trim to trim and for differing agrarian and climatic conditions to realize ideal yields and an
profitable sowing machine have to be endeavor to fulfill these necessities. In development, saving in brought of
operation time, work and essentialness are other focuses of intrigued to be decided from.

Global Ranking of India in farm Production and Productivity

Crop Productionrank Productivityrank


Paddy 2nd 30th
Wheat 2nd 22nd
Maize 7th 35th
Totalcereals 3rd 36th
Groundnut 2nd 40th
Rapeseeds 3rd 28th
Pulses 1st 44 th
Potato 4th 26th
Fruits 2nd -
Vegetables 2nd -

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Fabricated Images

Left view frontview

Right view Back view

Field Crop Classifications and its Sowing Specification

CLASSIFICATIONOFCROPS PUSHTOPUSHDIVIDING*SEEDTOSEEDDISPERSING*D
EPTHIN‘CM’
CerealCrops
MajorCerealCrops
 Paddy/Rice:Oryzasativa 20cm*10cm*3cm
 Wheat:Triticumaestivum 20cm*10cm*3cm
 Maize/Corn:Zeamays 45cm*20cm*5cm
 Barley:Hordiumvulgare 30cm*10cm*3cm

MajorMillets
 Sorghum/Jowar 45cm*10cm*4cm
 Bajra/Pearlmillet:Pennisetumtyphoides 45cm*10cm*4cm
 Ragi/Fingermillet: Eleusinecorcana 20cm*10cm*5cm

MinorMillets
 Foxtailmillet/Navane:Setariaitalica 30cm*10cm*3cm

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 Littlemillet/Saame:Panicummilliare 30cm*10cm*3cm
 Kodomillet/Haraka:Paspalumscrobiculat 30cm*10cm*3cm
um
 Prosomillet/Baragu:Panicummillaceum 30cm*10cm*3cm
 Barnyardmillet/Udlu 30cm*10cm*3cm

PulseCrops
Grams
 Redgram/Pigeonpea:Cajanuscajan 90cm*30cm*2cm
 Bengalgram 90cm*30cm*2cm
 Chickpea:Cicerarietinum 30cm*10cm*2cm
 Blackgram/Urd:Phaseolusmungo/Vigna 30cm*10cm*2cm
mungo
 Greengram/Mung:Phaseolusaureus/Vign 30cm*10cm*2cm
aradiata
 Horsegram:Macrotylomauniflorum 30cm*10cm*2cm

MaterialUsed and Methods


Plounger

Whenagribusinesswastobeginwithcreated,straightforwardhand-heldburrowingsticksandtoolswereutilizedinprofoundly
richzones,suchasthebanksoftheNilewheretheyearlysurgerejuvenatesthesoil,tomakepenetrate(wrinkles)toplantseedsin.
Burrowingsticks,diggers,andmattockswerenotdesignedinanyoneput,andhoe-cultivationmusthavebeencommonallovera
gribusinesswaspracticed.

Chain Drive

Chain drive may be a way of transmitting mechanical control from one put to another. It is as often as possible utilized
to communicate control to the wheels of a vehicle.

MetalStrip

Specifications

Material:MildSteelStrip
Length:40cm
Width:5cm
Length:60cm
Width:5cm

Sheet Metal

Sheetmetalisusedtomakethecollectingbox.
Material - GISHEET
Size - 40*15cm
Thickness - 3mm
Quantity - 1

Shaft

Shaftdiameter:12mm
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Material:mildsteel

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DCMotorcapacity:12V
Unloading:130rpm
Loading:90rpm

Specification of Battery

Capacity: 7.3 ah and 12v


Batterytype:Lead–acidbattery
Time taken for charging: 3 hrs

Working Principle
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egetsleveledwhichmoreovermakesadifferenceincoveringtheplungedseedsbythesandforappropriatedevelopmentmainte
nance.

WorkingSpecification

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pacityis1liter.Seedsowingcapacityis2kg.Seedsowingtimeis350seedsperhours(approx).Adduptohandleperhouris20hect
ares(approx).

3DModel

1) Design Calculation

Bending Stress

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AxialStress

Result and Discussion


It programmed ways of sows the seed employing a machine diminishes worker necessity. Hence the waste of seed to
boot been diminished to a more conspicuous degree. This framework has been created for the sowing of seeds in a
programmed way. The expand can be moved forward to any other sorts of alter such as characteristic items, paddy,
sugarcane etc. The machine willloadoutwithconventional wheels.

Conclusion
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References
[1] Seymour's sowing machine (1847), East Bloomfield, Ont. Co., N.Y., April, 1847 Pierpont Seymour, patentee,
other 19th C. farm implement articles.
[2] Sahay (1990), Principals of Agricultural Engineering (2005), Volume 1, Textbook published by Jain brothers,
New Delhi, India.
[3] Jain. S.C and Grace Philip (2002), Farm Machinery an approach Text book published by Jain brothers, New
Delhi, India.
[4] Shrinivas R. Zanwar, R. D. Kokate (June-2012), Advanced Agriculture System. International Journal of
Robotics and Automation (IJRA)magazine.
[5] [Link] ME AMIE (June 2009), Automation and Emerging Technology Development of 2d Seed Sowing
Robo-Journal of agriculture science.
[6] H. Pota, R. Eaton, J. Katupitiya, S.D. Pathirana (2007), Agricultural robotics: A streamlined approach to
realization of autonomous farming,Second international conference on industrial and information system,
IEEE.
[7] Advanced Robotic Weeding System, Ajit G Deshmukh&V.A. Kulkarni, ITSI Transactions on Electrical and
Electronics Engineering (ITSITEEE).
[8] Chengliang Liu, Mingjun Wang, and Jun Zhou (2008), coordinating control for an agricultural vehicle with
individual wheel speedsand steering angles, IEEE control systems magazine.

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