Vol. 7, Issue 5 (2019)
Design, development and performance evaluation of manually operated soil conditioner in vertisol
Author(s): Rupak Kumar Deshbhratar, Ajeet Sarathe, Atul Kumar Shrivastava, Murlee Rathore, Bhushan Kumar Malvi and Manmohan Verma
Abstract: Tillage has many roles in crop production (Cornish and Pratley, 1987; Titi, 2003). The most widely recognized function of tillage is seedbed preparation. This research work involved the design, develop and evaluation of modified soil conditioner after discovering that tools such as spade and hoes require high drudgery, time consuming and high labour force (Sridhar, 2013). It is necessary to design the implements which minimize the human effort and provide efficient work output. As a solution to these problems, the soil conditioner was designed and constructed at the AKS University, Satna M.P. The preliminary design of manually operated soil conditioner had been done in Autodesk Inventor version 2017, developed by U.S. based software company Autodesk. The soil conditioner was made of two implements attachment primary one is pegs which open the soil and the secondary one is clod crusher which breaks the soil. The performance of modified soil conditioner were conducted at three different levels of each parameter viz, soil moisture content (8.10 and 18.18%, db), length of pegs (14 and 28 cm) and width of implements (0.48 and 0.60 m). The results were analyzed statistically, interaction due to use of W×S×M did not touch the level of significance at 5% probability. On the basis of results obtained soil conditioner was selected and cost economics of selected soil conditioner with Kudali was carried out. The cost of cultivation (Rs/hr) with soil conditioner is slightly (3.80 %) greater than Kudali. The modified soil conditioner has pronounced effect on cost of operation per unit area.
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Rupak Kumar Deshbhratar, Ajeet Sarathe, Atul Kumar Shrivastava, Murlee Rathore, Bhushan Kumar Malvi, Manmohan Verma. Design, development and performance evaluation of manually operated soil conditioner in vertisol. Int J Chem Stud 2019;7(5):699-703.
