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Cost Assessment of the Combined Rainwater Harvesting with Solar Irrigation
Water availability is becoming acute in all over the world. Increased water demands have generated interest in different systems. Rainwater harvesting is one of the promising way to meet water demand for agricultural ... -
Design and Development of Pulverizing Attachment to Cultivator
In tillage, active and passive tillage tools used in India faces problem like, poor soil-tire interface, clod formation, compaction due to heavy traffic and timeliness in operation. Hence, it was planned to fabricate a ... -
Design and Development of Self Propelled Walk Behind Finger Type Cotton Stripper
In India, cotton is still picked manually by ladies pickers. Shortage of labor availability for cotton picking on farms results delayed picking of cotton crop and loss in term of cotton production. Commercially available ... -
Design of Flood and Drain Vertical Hydroponic System
The study was conducted by installing the Flood and Drain Vertical Hydroponic System for cultivating Chinese leafy vegetable Pak-choi (var. Choko) of family Brassicaceae. The system was designed in the department of ... -
Development and Comparative Study of Cast Iron Rasp Bar and Nylon Rasp Bar Threshing Cylinders for Paddy Threshing
Two types of threshing cylinders, namely cast iron rasp bar threshing cylinder and nylon rasp bar threshing cylinder, were developed and fitted with portable paddy thresher. Each threshing cylinder was tested for its ... -
Development and Evaluation of a Continuous Type Tamarind Deseeder
A continuous type tamarind deseeder with a capacity of 75 kg•h-1 has been fabricated and evaluated at the Department of Agricultural Process Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. The machine ... -
Development and Evaluation of a Tractor Operated pH Monitoring System
South-western and central part of Punjab is dominated by calcareous soil includes desert soil, sandy loam to clayey and also have grey and red desert soil, calsisol soil, regosol soil and alluvial soil making alkalinity ... -
Development and Evaluation of Metering Mechanism for Sowing of Onion Seed (Allium Cepa L.)
Onion (Allium cepa L) is one of the major vegetable crops grown throughout the country. It is widely grown in different parts of the country mainly by small and marginal farmers. Generally, the onion seeds are sown in ... -
Development and Performance Evaluation of Mobile Irrigator for Dry Land Agriculture
This research work was conducted at Agricultural Engineering College and Research Institute, Kumulur located in Tamil Nadu, India. The mobile irrigator was developed for effective utilization of the available water in ... -
Development and Performance Evaluation of Plantain Peeler Cum Slicer
Peeling and slicing of green mature plantains of Nendran variety is labour intensive and costly. Based on the physical and mechanical properties of green mature plantain the peeler cum slicer was developed. The peeling ... -
Development and Selection of Spoons for Metering Device of Onion Bulblets Planter
Engineering properties of onion bulblets of variety Agrifound Dark Red were determined for development of metering device of onion bulblets planter. The raw sample of onion bulblets was graded in three groups as small, ... -
Development and Standardization of Nitrogen (Liquid Urea) Application Metering Mechanism for Point Injection Nitrogen Applicator
The existing method of broadcasting urea on straw mulched direct seeded wheat crop is susceptible to nitrogen losses. Nitrogen (liquid urea) applicator could be used to forestall the hazards of nitrogen loss and a metering ... -
Development of a Multi-Roller Abrasive Cassava Peeling Machine
A simple to operate, maintain and affordable multi-roller abrasive cassava peeling machine comprising a feed section, peeling chamber, abrasive surface, tuber discharge chute and waste peel chute was designed, fabricated ... -
Development of a Single Screw Extruder for the Production of Wood-Plastic Composite
This study was carried out to design, fabricate, assemble and evaluate the performance of a laboratory scale wood-plastic composite (WPC) single screw extruder that can be used for recycling wood and plastic waste materials ... -
Development of Air Assisted Sprayer for Greenhouse Floriculture Crops
Floriculture is one of the major sectors in Indian agriculture. Main threats to floriculture production are insects, pests and diseases. Therefore, a motor operated air assisted sprayer was developed for greenhouse ... -
Development of Drought Severity – Areal Extent – Frequency Curves in The Parambikulam - Aliyar Basin, Tamil Nadu, India
Assessment and characterization of regional droughts provide useful information for sustainable water resources planning and management. In the present study, the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) a most widely used ... -
Development of Multivariate Regression Model for Quantification of Proximate Content in Vigna Radiata Using Fourier Transform –NIR Spectroscopy
The Fourier Transform Near Infrared (FT-NIR) absorbance spectra (12800-3600 cm-1) of 222 green gram samples was used to build calibration models for the determination of the content of protein, fat and carbohydrate. The ... -
Development of Pedal Operated Syzygium Cumini Tree Shaker with Catching Unit
The objective of this research work was to develop a pedal operated tree shaker for jamun (Syzygium cumini) fruit harvesting. The prototype machine was constructed and tested on jamun fruit. The tree shaker was powered by ... -
Development of PLS Model for Rapid Estimation of Protein Content of Rice Using Fourier Transform - Near Infrared Spectroscopy
This study attempted the feasibility to use near infrared spectroscopy as a nondestructive analysis method to qualitative and quantitative assessment of rice quality of Central Warehousing Corporation, India. A PLS model ... -
Development of Soil Profile Temperature Prediction Models for Bare and Solarized Field Conditions
Soil solarization is a simple and effective technique for controlling problems like weeds and soil borne pathogens by means of increasing moist soil temperature through trapping heat by using the thin transparent polyethylene ...