PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF TRACTOR DRAWN POTATO DIGGER CUM - ELEVATOR
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
Potato is the major tuber crop grown in country. It is a rich source of carbohydrate, used all over the country. Potato is harvested when it attains the physiologic maturity. Potato harvesting is time consuming operation due to its various activity taken place at the same time. There is different equipment of harvesting the potato from the field. This equipment is tractor operated, animal drawn, or hand operated. Tractor operated potato digger cum elevator is mainly used for digging and exposing potato tubers simultaneously. The digger was found to perform very well under varying soil condition. A potato digger cum elevator was designed and constructed which is capable of digging potato with a minimum of injury working on the principle of digging and elevating the soil and potatoes simultaneously. It reduces 75% labour and 50% operating time compared to conventional method of manual digging with spades, kudali and khurpi. It also results in 4-5% reduction in harvesting losses. The tractor drawn potato digger elevator was found highly economical, time saving, reducing, labour charges with minimum damages.
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DEVESH KUMAR, ASHOK TRIPATHI
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