scholarly journals Development of Passive-Passive Combination Tillage Implements Suitable for Mini-Tractor

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
T. Mahesh Babu ◽  
A. Ashok Kumar ◽  
K. V. S. Rami Reddy ◽  
H. V. Hema Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Soil Compaction ◽  
Field Evaluation ◽  
Wheel Slip ◽  
Power Requirement ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Increase Food Production ◽  
Draft Force ◽  
Actual Field ◽  
Soil Interface

Indian agriculture account for nearly 14.2% of the gross domestic product and involves over 58.2% of population. The biggest challenge before the agriculture sector of India is to meet the growing demands of food for its increasing population from 1.21 billion in the year 2011 to 1.6 billion by the year 2050. Since the cultivated area has remained nearly constant (142 Mha) over the years, the only option to increase food production is to increase the productivity of land. The developed combination tillage implement comprises of two passive tillage implement one as front passive tillage implements and other as second passive tillage implement. In case of passive implements, power losses are more at tire-soil interface and also a considerable weight is required on drive wheels of tractor to provide necessary traction that results into detrimental soil compaction. The developed tillage implements were evaluated under actual field condition at different depth and operating speeds. The tillage performance parameters such as draft force, fuel consumption, wheel slip, power requirement was measured. A digital dynamometer was used for measurement of draft force of the tillage implement at different operating depths under field evaluation. The draw bar power requirement of the combination tillage implement was calculated. During field evaluation it was observed that the draft force of the cultivator with disc harrow (C-DH) found to vary from 190 to 220 kgf. The power requirement of combination tillage implement was observed as, 5.32, 9.866, 18.48 and 2.42, 6.3, 3, 7.7 and 0.46, 1.7, 3.5 kW at forward speed of 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 km h-1, respectively.

Role of Research and Development in Sustaining Indian Agriculture: A Brief Review

2020 ◽  
pp. 396-401
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Production Process ◽  
Annual Increase ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
The Past ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Development Institutions ◽  
Agriculture Development

Technology united with research and development has evolved as a grave differentiator of the agriculture sector in India including production, processing, and agriculture packing and marketing of given crops. Near about 50 percent of the Indian workforce was engaged in the agriculture sector but its share in GDP was only 14 percent, much lower in comparison to former. Though, certain agriculture items showed a steady annual increase in terms of kilograms per hectare. Agriculture transformed significantly over the past few decades but when it comes to investment in research and development there is a lot more which needs to be done. The paper analyzes the role of various research and development institutions in boosting the growth of the agriculture sector that helps in attaining sustainable agriculture development and self-sufficiency in the production process since independence. It also focusesed on the various issues faced by these development institutions. The findings unveiled that since independence a lot more was done to boost the research and development in the agriculture sector at both the center and state levels but a proper implementation of these policies along with transparency could bring more desirable outcomes than were gained at present.

Development, Construction, and Field Evaluation of a Soil Compaction Profile Sensor

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-725 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Andrade-Sánchez ◽  
S. K. Upadhyaya ◽  
B. M. Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Soil Compaction ◽  
Field Evaluation

scholarly journals A Field Vegetable Transplanter for Use in Both Tilled and No-Till Soils

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 593-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Frasconi ◽  
Luisa Martelloni ◽  
Michele Raffaelli ◽  
Marco Fontanelli ◽  
Lara Abou Chehade ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Success Rate ◽  
Conservation Tillage ◽  
Soil Conditions ◽  
Technical Solution ◽  
Vegetable Crops ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
No Till ◽  
Draft Force ◽  
Actual Field

Abstract. A commercial, manually fed vegetable transplanter was modified and adapted to work in no-till soils. Details of the modifications are described in this article. The aim of this research was to evaluate the performance of this transplanter under actual field conditions in both tilled and no-till soils. The draft force in the no-till soil was measured for different working tools mounted for tilling or loosening a narrow band of soil before passing with the furrower. The combination of a ripper shank opener with a straight nose point resulted in the lowest draft force values per unit of working depth. The transplanter accuracy and transplant success rate were evaluated in different vegetable crops. The accuracy parameters (multiple index, miss index, quality of feed index, and precision) were estimated and in general were similar in the tilled and no-till soils, indicating that the transplanter was able to operate in both soil conditions with the same accuracy. The transplant success rates were also similar in both soil conditions. The transplanter thus offers a satisfactory technical solution for transplanting vegetables in both tilled and no-till soils. Keywords: Conservation tillage, draft force, organic farming, transplanter accuracy, transplant success rate.

Preliminary Field Evaluation of Soil Compaction in Rain Gardens

2013 ◽  
Vol 139 (9) ◽  
pp. 1233-1236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven E. Yergeau ◽  
Christopher C. Obropta
Keyword(s):  
Soil Compaction ◽  
Field Evaluation ◽  
Rain Gardens

RELATIVE EFFECTS OF TRACTOR WEIGHT AND WHEEL-SLIP IN CAUSING SOIL COMPACTION

1973 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 399-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. B. DAVIES ◽  
J. B. FINNEY ◽  
S. J. RICHARDSON
Keyword(s):  
Soil Compaction ◽  
Wheel Slip

scholarly journals HEDGING IN AGRICULTURAL COMMODITIES

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-50
Author(s):  
Sumeet Gupta ◽  
Vinay Kandpal
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Investment Risk ◽  
Agricultural Commodities ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Agriculture Industry ◽  
Total Food ◽  
Commodity Derivatives ◽  
Competitive Pricing

The Indian Agriculture Sector is on the edge of a rebellion that will revolutionize the complete food chain by means of the total food production in India is expected to twofold in the following ten years. Outstanding export projections, competitive pricing of agricultural products that are internationally comparable has created trade prospects in the agro industry. Agricultural Output is expected to grow by 11% in 2018-2019 after recording a 8-9 % increase in the previous years. It will create Indian Agriculture Industry Gateway by which exporter and importer can fulfill their requirement and reap the benefits of agro related opportunities. MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange) and NCDEX (National Commodity Derivatives Exchange) has developed opportunities for trading in spot and forward trade. It will help to develop India as Agricultural Based Economy. Trading of agricultural commodities help the traders to take the advantage of Price Fluctuations but also faces Investment Risk and Price Risk. Movement in future prices create the possibility for short

scholarly journals Export Specialization of India with Top Five Agricultural Economies: An Application of RCA and RSCA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 4705-4708 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Trade ◽  
Comparative Advantage ◽  
Export Performance ◽  
Standard International Trade Classification ◽  
Revealed Comparative Advantage ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
World Demand ◽  
Trade Classification ◽  
Export Specialization

The paper attempts to determine Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) and Revealed Symmetric Comparative Advantage (RSCA) of Indian agriculture sector with respect to top five agriculture exporting countries viz; USA, UK, UAE, Singapore and China. The study evaluates the structure of comparative advantage from 1995-2017. Data as per the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC-1) is used to compute RCA and RSCA index. The indices reveals the comparative advantage in case of majority of commodities like fish, fish preparations, fruits, vegetables, sugar, sugar preparations, miscellaneous food products, wood, lumber and cork. Increasing world demand for exports trailed by the competitiveness of Indian exports has played an important role in export performance.

scholarly journals Smart irrigation system based on IoT

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
arushi dheer ◽  
M. L. sharma ◽  
krishna tripathi
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Soil Analysis ◽  
Irrigation System ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Home Garden ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Shared Network ◽  
Automated Irrigation System

<div><div><div><div><p>Agriculture is the backbone of the Indian economy. The Indian agriculture sector accounts for 18% of the gross domestic product and employs nearly 50% of the country's workforce, with increasing population, water shortage and ever-growing demand for food. Since the acres of land available for cultivation remains unchanged, it is critical that we take steps towards increasing productivity and optimizing water usage to increase yield from the land currently available for cultivation. Soil Analysis has become an essential factor for effective cultivation. The need for the automated irrigation system is to overcome over-irrigation and under-irrigation.[1] This research paper proposes an automated irrigation system using Arduino microcontroller, which is cost-effective and can be used on a farm field or average home garden. IoT is an upcoming technology with huge prospects. IoT is a technology which connects things, people, applications, data. Internet of Things (IoT)is a shared network of objects or things which can interact with each other provided the Internet connection—using this technology to implement this system at a lower scale to act as a base model. With the implementation of this project at a large scale, it could bring a significant change in the overall yield and water consumption in agriculture.</p></div></div></div></div>

scholarly journals Study report on Indian agriculture with IoT

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 2322
Author(s):  
G. Balakrishna ◽  
Nageswara Rao Moparthi
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Agricultural Policies ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
Agriculture Sector ◽  
Indian Agriculture ◽  
Work Done

Most of the population of our country are depends on agriculture for their survival. Agriculture plays an important role in our country economy. But since past few years production from agriculture sector is decreasing drastically. Agriculture sector saw a drastic downfall in its productivity from past few years, there are many reasons for this downfall. In this paper we will discuss about past, present and future of agriculture in our country, agricultural policies which are provided by government to improve the growth of agriculture and reasons why we are not able see the growth in agriculture. And also we will see how can we adopt automation into agriculture using various emerging technologies like IoT (Internet of Things), data mining, cloud computing and machine learning and some authors done some quality work previously on this topic we will discuss that also. Here we will see previous work done by various authors which can be useful to increase the productivity of agriculture sector

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