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Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola

Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola was established on 20th October, 1969 with its head-quarter at Akola. This Agricultural University was named after the illustrious son of Vidarbha Dr. Panjabrao (alias Bhausaheb) Deshmukh, who was the Minister for Agriculture,Govt. of India. The jurisdiction of this university is spread over the eleven districts of Vidarbha. According to the University Act 1983 (of the Government of Maharashtra), the University is entrusted with the responsibility of agricultural education, research and extension education alongwith breeder and foundation seed programme. The University has its main campus at Akola. The instructional programmes at main campus are spread over in 5 Colleges namely, College of Agriculture, College of Agricultural Engineering & Technology, College of Forestry, College of Horticulture and Post Graduate Institute. At this campus 4 degree programmes namely B.Sc.(Agri.) B.Sc. (Hort.), B.Sc. (Forestry) and B.Tech. (Ag. Engg.) , two Master’s Degree Programmes viz. M.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Tech. (Agri.Engg.) and Doctoral Degree Programmes in the faculties of Agriculture and Agril. Engineering are offered. The University has its sub-campus at Nagpur with constituent College, College of Agriculture which offers B.Sc.(Agri.) and M.Sc.(Agri.) degree programmes. The Nagpur Campus is accomplished with a garden, surrounded by its natural beauty and a well established Zoo which attract the general public and visitors to the city. A separate botanic Garden is being maintained on 22 hectares with a green house for the benefit of research workers. In addition there are 2 affiliated grant-in-aid colleges and 14 private non-grant-in-aid colleges under the umbrella of this University A Central Research Station is situated at the main Campus which caters to the need of research projects undertaken by Crop Scientists of the principle crops of the region are Cotton, Sorghum, Oilseeds and Pulses.

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Subject: Agricultural Engineering × Author: Authors : DANESHWAR KUMAR. × End date: 2023 × Start date: 2020 × Type: Thesis × Thesis Type: M.Tech. ×
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    Title : MODIFICATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MANUALLY OPERATED PADDY TRANSPLANTER.
    (Publisher : Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2022-10-08) Authors : DANESHWAR KUMAR.; Advisor : THAKARE, Dr. S. K.
    Abstract : Rice (Oryza sativa L.) is the most widely consumed staple food in the world. India is the world's second largest rice producer and the world's largest rice exporter. Transplanting of rice is the most common method in India. In most of the region transplanting is done manually. Manual rice transplanting is a tedious, labour intensive and very times consuming job requiring (250-300 man-h ha-1). Nowadays lot of efforts are made to introduce the mechanical transplanter in the country, but they are not popularized in Indian conditions due to small farm size, undulating topography of soil and climatic conditions, cost of the machine etc. In order to develop new transplanter, initially the study of existing CRRI paddy transplanter was done. The limitations and drawbacks have been highlighted. It was found that the existing transplanter needed some modification in order to reduce draft or drudgery, proper movement of tray index, increase field capacity, planting efficiency and reduce the unproductive hills. Therefore, a project on “modification and performance evaluation of manually operated paddy transplanter” was undertaken. Results of machine performance tests showed the sedimentation period of 36 hours was found to be most suitable for transplanting as float sinkage was minimum of 1.9 cm and required depth of planting of 4.5 cm was observed. The missing hills, floating hills, buried hills and damaged hills were found to be 10.34, 4.5, 2.29 and 1.13 per cent respectively. The total unproductive hills 18.37 per cent which was 10.72 per cent lower than the existing transplanter. The planting efficiency were found to be 81.61 per cent. The planting efficiency of the modified transplanter was increased by 11.52 per cent and found to be more effective than the existing transplanter. The actual field capacity and field efficiency were found to be 0.040 ha/h and 71.32 per cent respectively and increased by 37.5 % and 0.30 % as compared to existing manually operated paddy transplanter.