DEVELOPMENT AND FIELD EVALUATION OF CULTIVATING ATTACHMENT TO POWER TILLER
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https://doi.org/10.52151/Abstract
A power tiller operated three row cultivating attachment was developed and tested for interculture operation in soybean and sorghum crops. The field evaluation showed an effective field capacity of 0.22 ha/h and 0.107 ha/h in soybean and sorghum crops, respectively. The human energy requirement with power tiller cultivator was recorded to be 4.55 man-h/ha and 9.35 man-h/ha in soybean and sorghum crops, respectively. The respective weeding efficiencies were 51.2% and 48.3%. The cost of operation with power tiller cultivator and manual weeder was more or less same. The cost of operation with bullock drawn blade harrow (Kulpha) was about 1.5 times that of the power tiller cultivator and manual weeder.
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Anon. 1988. Annual Report, All India Coordinated Research Project on Intensive Testing of Power Tillers and Research and Development of New Machines to Make Them Versatile, Bhopal Centre, Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal.
