Vol. 11, Special Issue 9 (2022)

Author(s):
Vishwash, KL Dabhi, Pankaj Gupta, RC Salunkhe, Ghanshyam Panwar and Shukla Kripanarayan

Abstract:
The battery operated drum seeder was developed for the direct sowing of the pre-germinated paddy seeds in the puddled field. The main aim of this study was to reduce the drudgery of the farmers. The developed drum seeder was evaluated in both laboratory and field conditions. During the field evaluation, drum was filled with seeds up to three-fourth of its volume. This drum seeder was evaluated by operating it at the combination of three different forward speeds of 1 km/h, 1.5 km/h and 2 km/h with three different ground wheel diameters of 50 cm, 55 cm and 60 cm at two different lug inclination angles of 45° and 90°. The maximum effective field capacity and field efficiency of the drum seeder were 0.128 ha/h and 79.94% respectively, for 55 cm ground wheel at 2 km/h speed with lug inclination angle of 90°.