Farm Machinery

Overview

Syllabus 12

1. Week 1
   • Lecture 1 : Importance of Farm Machines in the Contest of Enhance Production, Multiple Cropping, Labour Scarcity etc.
   • Lecture 2 : Ploughing and first opening of the soil, the design and component details
   • Lecture 3 : Tractor, implement and soil force consideration for tillage implement design
   • Lecture 4 : Tractor, implement and soil force consideration for tillage implement design
   • Lecture 5 : Mechanics of rotavoator or rotary tillers
   • Lecture 6 : Design of a tractor PTO operated rotavator
2. Week 2
   • Lecture 7 : Tractor implement hitching systems
   • Lecture 8 : Mechanics of tractor implement hitch system and traction prediction models
   • Lecture 9 : Lecture on traction in laboratory
   • Lecture 10 : Combination tillage implements for efficient land preparation
   • Lecture 11 : LASER guided land laveller
3. Week 3
   • Lecture 12 : Introduction of seeding operation
   • Lecture 13 : Types of seed metering devices and their operation
   • Lecture 14 : Types of fertilizer metering, furrow opening and soil covering devices
   • Lecture 15 : Equipment for seeding and planting
   • Lecture 16 : Equipment for precision planting
4. Week 4
   • Lecture 17 : Equipment for Paddy Transplanting
   • Lecture 18 : Microcontroller based uniform seed rate application system
   • Lecture 19 : GPS based automatic Variable rate fertilizer applicator
   • Lecture 20 : Embedded GPS integrated Variable Rate Fertilizer Applicator
   • Lecture 21 : Design of a seeding equipment: PART -1
5. Week 5
   • Lecture 22 : Design of a seeding equipment: PART -2
   • Lecture 23 : Design of a seeding equipment: PART -3
   • Lecture 24 : Design a tractor drawn seed drill for a 40 hp tractor –I
   • Lecture 25 : Design a tractor drawn seed drill for a 40 hp tractor-II
   • Lecture 26 : Testing of tractor operated seeding equipment
6. Week 6
   • Lecture 27 : Estimation of wheel slip in farm machines
   • Lecture 28 : Estimation of draft in farm machines-I
   • Lecture 29 : Estimation of draft in farm machines -II
   • Lecture 30 : Vegetable Transplanting
   • Lecture 31 : Estimation of tractor axle and PTO torque in farm machines
7. Week 7
   • Lecture 32 : Farm machines for interculture operation
   • Lecture 33: Performance of weeding blades of a push-pull weeder
   • Lecture 34 : Advanced level machinery for inter and intra row weeding
   • Lecture 35 : Tractor mounted contact type microcontroller based improved variable rate herbicide applicator
   • Lecture 36: Design of manually operated weeding equipment
8. Week 8
   • Lecture 37 : Plant protection equipment/ machinery
   • Lecture 38 : Selection and design of plant protection equipment/ machinery
   • Lecture 39 : Manually operated knapsack-cum-boom sprayer
   • Lecture 40 : Performance evaluation of sprayer
   • Lecture 41 : Testing and certification of spraying equipment
9. Week 9
   • Lecture 42 : Problems based on the design and selection of spraying equipment- I
   • Lecture 43 : Problems based on the design and selection of spraying equipment- II
   • Lecture 44 : Advanced level spraying equipment: Ultrasonic sensor based sprayer
   • Lecture 45 : Advanced level spraying equipment: Drone assisted variable rate chemical application system and electrostatic sprayer
10. Week 10
    • Lecture 46 : Harvesting equipment
    • Lecture 47 : Machines for harvesting cereal crops, root and fruit crops
    • Lecture 48 : Combine Harvester
    • Lecture 49 : Advanced technology approach for cotton harvesting
11. Week 11
    • Lecture 50 : Threshing operation and equipment
    • Lecture 51 : Design of threshing equipment
    • Lecture 52 : Performance evaluation and testing of thresher
    • Lecture 53 : Conservation Agriculture
    • Lecture 54 : Materials for construction of farm machinery
12. Week 12
    • Lecture 55 : Machinery for Land Drainage, Land Reclamation and Estate Maintenance Part - I
    • Lecture 56 : Machinery for Land Drainage, Land Reclamation and Estate Maintenance Part - II
    • Lecture 57 : Machinery for Land Drainage, Land Reclamation and Estate Maintenance Part - III
    • Lecture 58 : Machinery Selection and Management-Part 1
    • Lecture 59 : Machinery Selection and Management -Part 2
    • Lecture 60 : Epilogue

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Taught by

• Prof. V K TewariIIT Kharagpur