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Farm Machiner Manish Patel

The document covers farm mechanization over 4 units. Unit 1 discusses farm operation types and implements. Unit 2 covers primary and secondary tillage equipment like plows and harrows. Unit 3 discusses crop planting methods and equipment like seed drills and planters. Unit 4 discusses interculture, weed control, plant protection equipment like sprayers and introduces earth moving equipment.

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Farm Machiner Manish Patel

The document covers farm mechanization over 4 units. Unit 1 discusses farm operation types and implements. Unit 2 covers primary and secondary tillage equipment like plows and harrows. Unit 3 discusses crop planting methods and equipment like seed drills and planters. Unit 4 discusses interculture, weed control, plant protection equipment like sprayers and introduces earth moving equipment.

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Unit-I

Status of farm mechanization, Introduction to various farm operation, implement types.


Classification of farm machines. Materials of construction. Tillage and its objectives.Field capacities,
field efficiency and simple numerical problems.

Unit-II

Primary and secondary tillage equipment; Ploughs: Disc, Mouldboard MOULDBOARD2, Subsoiler,
Rotary tiller, disc harrow and Puddlers. Forces acting on Disc, M.B. Plough and disc harrow. Draft
measurement of tillage equipment and simple numerical problems.

Unit-III numerical

Crop planting methods: Sowing and planting equipment - their construction, metering mechanism,
furrow openers, covering devices and metering mechanism for fertilizer applications, calibration and
adjustments. Paddy transplanter and its construction. Simple numerical problems on seed drills and
planters. Introduction to plot seed drills and precision planters.

Unit-IV numerical

Methods and equipments for interculture and weed control. Introduction to plant protection
equipment: Sprayers, dusters and their calibration, 85 Constructional features of different
components and adjustments of knapsack and foot sprayers and rotary duster. Simple numerical
problems on calibration of sprayers. Introduction to earth moving equipment, construction &
working principles of Bulldozer and numerical problems on its output.

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