DEVELOPMENT OF BATTERY POWERED INTER AND INTRA-ROW WEEDER
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2019
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Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology Anand Agricultural University, Anand
Abstract
Efficient weed management is necessary to increase the productivity with
judicious use of inputs. Weed control is one of the most difficult tasks in crop
production that accounts a considerable share of cost involved. There are many
methods for weed management, but out of those methods, chemical methods are most
popular. These methods are hazardous for environment as well as for human health.
To ensure the food security, growing demand for organically produced food and
sustainable development of agriculture, it is critically important to develop chemical
free agricultural products. This has necessitated the shift towards mechanical
weeding. Although, many weeders have been developed to remove the weeds from
the row, but weeds in intra row remain inattentive, which are indispensable to be
removed for more crop production. Although, the weed control in intra row region is
challenging for mechanical weeding, efforts required for development of low cost,
effective and efficient inter and intra row weeder with less drudgery for small farmers.
Considering all, a push type manual weeder was developed for inter as well as intra
row weeding simultaneously.