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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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    Citation : KASAL, YUVRAJ GOPINATH. (2017). Development of liquid fertilizer application system for planting mechanism. Department of Farm Power and Machinery, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidhyapeeth, Ph. D. 2017, xii, 128p. (Unpublished).
    (Dr.Panjabrao Deshmuksh Krishi Vidyapeet,Akola, 2017-10-23) 1. Name of Author BHANGARE, SANJAY CHANDRAKANT; 2. Name of Advisor Thakare, Dr. S. H.
    9. Agrotags Agricultural Engineering, Equipment, Pest control equipment, Sprayer Mechanization, Tractor power, Crop, Fruit crop, Orchard crop, High-density planting system, Tree volume, Leaf area, Spray volume, Centrifugal blower, Air assisted sprayer, Leaf density, Canopy volume, Impeller, Blade, Casing, Forward curved blade, Wooden pattern, Wind tunnel assembly, Centrifugal blower, Frame, Pump, Pesticide tank, Nozzle and spray delivery hoses, Power transmission unit, Control panel,
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    DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SMALL TRACTOR OPERATED FOLDING TYPE STUBBLE COLLECTOR.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2018-09-23) GUJAR, SEVAK SANTARAM; THAKARE, S. H.
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    DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF POWER OPERATED GROUNDNUT DECORTICATOR.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola., 2017-09-13) KOTHALKAR, VAISHALI GAJANAN.; Deshmukh, Dr. M. M
    Present work is entitled “Design, development and performance evaluation of power operated groundnut decorticator.” To design concave sieve of groundnut decorticator various physical parameters of groundnut pods and seeds were studied to design concave sieve. Overall dimensions of main frame are 1400×320×820. Electric motor, Pulley and belts are used for power transmission. The performance evaluation of power operated groundnut decorticator was evaluate at different clearances between decorticating lever and concave sieve. Broken seed were 13.96 per cent at 12 mm clearance and losses were 21.06 per cent at 7 mm clearance Decorticating efficiencies were 97.78 per cent at 12 mm clearance and 98.43 per cent at 7 mm Clearance. Cleaning efficiency was 85.71 per cent at 12 mm clearance and 78.93 per cent at 7 mm clearance. Cleaning efficiency decreases with decreasing clearance. Input capacity was 45 kg/h at 12mm clearance and 40 kg/h at 7mm clearance. Output capacity was 28.75 kg/h at 12 mm clearance and 25.44 kg/h at 7 mm clearance. Input and output capacities were decreased with clearance. Seed recovery range was 79.07 per cent at 12mm clearance and 73.29 per cent at 7 mm clearance. Seed recovery range was decreased with clearance. Capacity utilization was 63.88 per cent at 12mm clearance and 63.60 per cent at 7 mm clearance.
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    DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SEED PLATE FOR SESAMUM.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2017-09-13) KADLAG, POONAM KAKASAHEB.; Deshmukh, Dr. M. M.
    The study was carried out to design, develop and evaluate the performance of an inclined seed plate for sesamum planting. To design the seed plate various physical parameters of sesamum seed were studied to design the cell size. Various materials were used for fabrication purpose on the trial and error basis, but the acrelic is most suitable material for fabrication of seed plate for sesamum. Performance evaluation of planter was carried out with acrelic sesamum plate. Various technical and economical aspects of the planter with sesamum seed plate such as seed rate, depth of planting, plant to plant spacing, row to row spacing, visible damage to the seed, uniformity index, Emergence percentage, fuel consumption and cost of operation were measured. The maximum number of seeds dropped by using inclined seed plate was 3. The performance of the planter with sesamum seed plate is satisfactory. It gives a desired seed rate obtained in the calibration test was 3.32 kg/ha. During the field trial seed damage is negligible. The planter gives row to row spacing of 44.8 cm and average depth of placement of sesamum seed was found to be 2.5 cm, which is close to recommended values of these parameter. The working width of planter will be 60 cms with a depth of 2 to 3 cm. For sowing operation fuel consumption tractor were found 5 l/ha. The percentage of the visible damaged seeds was found in the range of 0.5 to 1 %. (Average 0.5 %) which was negligible. Germination percentage of seed was found to be 72 %. Average plant to plant spacing for first row was found to be 12.4 cm and second row was found to be 13.9 cm. The average uniformity of sesamum seed placement was 79.6 %. The average emergence was observed to be 79.80 %. The cost of operation for sowing was Rs. 470 Rs/h. The overall performance of tractor operated sesamum planter during the operation carried in small area regarding seed placement was satisfactory.
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    PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SMALL TRACTOR OPERATED SEED FERTI DRILL CUM INTER ROW CULTIVATOR.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola. Maharashtra., 2017-09-13) PAKHARE, MANOHAR MAHADEV; THAKARE, Dr. S. H.
    Sowing is a very important operation during sowing season, there is an acute shortage of labour, which causes delay in sowing of crop which ultimately results in a reduction in yield similarly weeding operation is one of the important intercultural tillage operation which control unwanted plants between the rows that consume more fertilizers and reduces the crop yield. There was a need of versatile machine which overcome the economic constraints of the farmers and could perform for both sowing and Intercultural operations. Therefore the project was undertaken on performance evaluation of small tractor operated seed ferti drill cum inter row cultivator in the Department of farm power and machinery, Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krushi Vidyapeeth, Akola. Around 90 per cent of farmers fall in the category of small, marginal and semi-medium land holding in India and the purchase of higher horse power tractor and implements is beyond the economic capacity an average of the Indian farmers. The higher horse power tractor operated machineries are not suitable for small and scattered land holdings since it gives low field efficiency in small fields. Presently the farmers are using bullock drawn or tractor drawn seed drills for sowing and similarly both the powers are being used for interculturing operation. The seed ferti drill cum inter row cultivator was calibrated in the laboratory for sorghum, chickpea and maize seed and the desired seed rate was obtained 13.84, 79.76 and 23.28 kg/ha, respectively. The average row to row spacing of 44.9 cm and depth of seed placement for sorghum, chickpea & maize seed was found to be 2.5, 6.9 & 3.9 cm, respectively. The working width of seed ferti drill was found to be 135 cm with a depth of sowing was observed to be 2 to 10 cm and that width of inter row cultivator was found to be 90 cm with a depth of inturculture operation was observed 6 to 10 cm. The average draft requirement of the seed ferti drill was 198.1 kg and it was recorded 167.1 kg for inter row cultivator at an average speed of 3 km/h. The percentage of the visible seed damage was found in the range of 1 to 1.5 per cent in seed ferti drill calibration. Fuel consumption for sowing operation and intercultural operation was found to be 4.51 l/ha and 3.21 l/ha, respectively. The average tractor wheel slip for seed ferti drill and inter row cultivator was found to be 6.68 and 6.78 per cent, respectively. The effective field capacity, theoretical field capacity and field efficiency for seed ferti drill was found to be 0.403 ha/h, 0.485 ha/h and 83.09 per cent, respectively. The effective field capacity, theoretical field capacity and field efficiency for inter row cultivator was found to be 0.428 ha/h, 0.469 ha/h and 91.26 per cent, respectively. The average weeding efficiency, plant damage and performance index of machine was found to be 90.02 per cent, 1.4 per cent, respectively. The average germination percentage was observed 84.77, 93.80 and 79.81 per cent for sorghum, chickpea and maize crops, respectively. The cost of operation for sowing was found to be Rs.1202.20 per hectare and the cost of interculturing operation was found to be Rs.922.86 per hectare. The overall performance of the small tractor operated seed ferti drill cum inter row cultivator was found to be satisfactory.
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    MODIFICATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF SELF PROPELLED REAPER WINDROWER FOR HARVESTING CHICKPEA AND WHEAT.
    (Dr. Panjabrao Deshmukh Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola, Maharashtra., 2017-09-13) WAHANE, TEJASWINI BHASKARRAO.; Thakare, Dr. S. K.
    The project entitled “modification and performance evaluation of self propelled reaper windrower for harvesting chickpea and wheat” was undertaken with the objectives to evaluate performance of self propelled vertical conveyor reaper for harvesting of chickpea and wheat crop and modifications done are development of collection and unloading unit. For collection of cut crop and heap making at every 5 m distance of travel. The testing was carried at Central Research Station of Dr.PDKV, Akola. Also the test results of mechanical harvesting of chickpea and wheat crop by self propelled vertical conveyor reaper were compared with test results of manual harvesting to know the benefits of mechanical harvesting over manual harvesting. The self propelled vertical conveyor reaper cut and windrowed cut crop uniformly in a row. The average effective field capacity and field efficiency of the self propelled vertical conveyor reaper for chickpea was found to be 0.249 ha/h and 89.00 per cent, and for wheat it was 0.360 ha/h and 91.76 per cent respectively. Fuel consumption of self propelled vertical conveyor reaper was 0.725 lit/h and 2.84 lit/ha for chickpea and 0.700 lit/h and 1.92 lit/ha for wheat. The field trail of VCR has been conducted at different grain moisture content, in order to determine the optimum grain moisture content at which the harvesting losses are minimum. It was observed that at lower grain moisture content the per cent harvest losses were higher. At grain moisture content of 17.0 % the harvest losses were found minimum i.e. 2.33 % and in case of wheat at grain moisture content of 10.24% the harvest losse were found minimum i.e. 0.93 % as compared to the harvest losses at other higher grain moisture content. The average harvesting losses for chickpea in mechanical harvesting and manual harvesting were found to be 8.01 per cent and 3.08 per cent, and for wheat crop 1.035 per cent and 1.83 per cent respectively. Developed collection and unloading unit was found work satisfactorily during laboratory and filler field trail. The cost of operation of self propelled vertical conveyor reaper and manual harvesting for chickpea were 850 Rs/ha and 1264 Rs/ha and for wheat 1155 Rs/ha and 3400 Rs/ha respectively. In mechanical harvesting the per cent saving in the cost of operation and time were found to be 32.83 per cent and 35.82 per cent and for wheat 66.02 per cent and 62.71 per cent respectively.