PERFORMANCE TESTING OF FOUR ROW SELF PROPELLED PADDY TRANSPLANTER

2. PERFORMANCE TESTING OF FOUR ROW SELFPERFORMANCE TESTING OF FOUR ROW SELF
PROPELLED PADDY TRANSPLANTERPROPELLED PADDY TRANSPLANTER
BY
NIRMAL DEVANAND SINGHADIANIRMAL DEVANAND SINGHADIA
2012AE/56B2012AE/56B
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING
AND TECHNOLOGY
V.N.M.K.V., PARBHANI.

3. RICE TRANsPLANTERRICE TRANsPLANTER
Four Row Self Propelled Paddy Transplanter (PF4555)Four Row Self Propelled Paddy Transplanter (PF4555)

4. INTRODUCTIONINTRODUCTION
 total area planted under rice
crop in India is 42.20 million
ha.
 grown traditionally by manual
transplanting.
 Involve drudgery and also
very expensive.
 Manual transplanting takes
about 250-300 man hours/ha.
 about 25 per cent of the total
labour.

5. RICE (ORIzYA sATIVA)RICE (ORIzYA sATIVA)
 Most commonly consumed food around the world.
 World wide 3.5 billion people depend on rice.
 Demand is increasing continuously.

6. RICE MARKETRICE MARKET
 20% of the world’s
calorie supply, and 30%
of Asia’s
 Top producers are
China (31%) and India
(20%)

7. RICE PRODUCTIONRICE PRODUCTION

11. Current ProduCtsCurrent ProduCts
 Cost
 Price of equipment: 2,75,000/-
 Technical limitations
 Need large, flat fields
 Can not plant on field edges
 Frequently overturn in the mud

12. needneed
 Increasing demand of rice
 Land and water are bearing very scare
 Rural labour shortage
 To maximise yield

13. AdVAntAGesAdVAntAGes
 less expensive
 farmer friendly
 labour saving
 timely transplanting
 optimum plant density
 minimize the cost of
transplanting

14. teChniCAlteChniCAl
requirementsrequirements
 Prevent back-problems
in field workers
 Extremely low-cost
 Simple and rugged
 Easily transportable
 Can be repaired using
local materials
 Usable in a variety of
terrains

15. Material and MethodsMaterial and Methods
 four row self propelled paddy transplanter
(PF4555)
 seedlings raised on mat type nursery.
 Raised beds of 58 cm length, 28 cm width and 19
cm height.
 Polythene sheet of 28 cm width and 50 micron
thickness

16.  Soil was sieved and mixed with equal proportion of
sand and farm yard manure and spread over the
polythene sheet to a depth of 1.9 cm.
 Sprouted seeds were spread uniformly on the
polythene sheet and pressed gently.
 They were covered with paddy straw and watered for
four days
 After the fourth day paddy straw was removed and
seedlings were grown normally by regular watering.
 After 15 days the seedlings mats were fed to the
mechanical self propelled four row paddy transplanter.

17. perforMance testingperforMance testing
 Theoretical field capacity
 Actual field capacity
 Field efficiency
 Labour saving
 Cost of transplanting per ha
 fixed cost,
 labour cost,
 fuel cost

18. Table 1.
Technical Specifications of 4 row self propelled paddy transplanter

19. 3.2

22. 1700
66006600

23. Results and discussionResults and discussion
Based on the field testing conducted during kharif 2010-11, 2011-12Based on the field testing conducted during kharif 2010-11, 2011-12
 actual field capacity 0.2726 ha/h
 field efficiency 71 %
at an average operating speed of 3.2kmph
 take 8 h to transplant 1 ha area
 fuel consumption 5.70 lit/ha
 labour requirement
 2 man days per hectare (paddy transplanter)
 32 man days per hectare (manual transplanting)
 Saves 30 man days per hactare.

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