Design, Development and Evaluation of Deep Soil Volume Loosener-cum-Fertilizer Applicator

Manoj Kumar; T. C. Thakur

doi:10.52151/jae2013502.1507

Authors

Manoj Kumar Division of Agricultural Engineering, SKUAST-J, Jammu, India, Author
T. C. Thakur National Professor-ICAR, Dept. of FMPE, College of Technology, GB Pant University of Agriculture and Technology,Pantnagar, Uttarakhand 263145, India, Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52151/jae2013502.1507

Keywords:

Deep soil loosening, deep fertilizer placement, row crop cultivation, laser leveling

Abstract

An equipment was designed and developed for deep soil volume loosening, fertilizer metering with deep placement

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