DRAUGHTABILITY STUDIES OF NON-DESCRIPT BUFFALOES OF CHHATTISGARH FOR PRIMARY TILLAGE IMPLEMENTS

A. CHANDRAKER¹*, A. DAVE², V. VICTOR³, N. KERKETTA^4
1Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, SVCAET&RS, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492006, India
²Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, SVCAET&RS, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492006, India
³Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, SVCAET&RS, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492006, India
⁴Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, SVCAET&RS, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh, 492006, India
* Corresponding Author : akhilesh_chandraker@rediffmail.com

Received : 11-09-2018     Accepted : 26-09-2018     Published : 30-09-2018
Volume : 10     Issue : 18       Pages : 7172 - 7176
Int J Agr Sci 10.18 (2018):7172-7176

Keywords : Draught ability of Buffaloes, Physiological parameters, Body temperature, Respiration rate, Pulse rate, Fatigue
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are highly grateful to AICRP on Utilization of Animal Energy Project, Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, SVCAET&RS, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Raipur, Chhattisgarh for providing facilities and other sources for conduction of the present study
Author Contribution : All author equally contributed

Draught animals, particularly bullocks and buffaloes, hold an important place in our agricultural farming and will continue to do so for many more year’s to come especially in Chhattisgarh. A pair of local buffaloes (930 kg/pair) of non descript breed was studied for estimating its draught ability by using CIAE animal loading car. It was observed that the local buffaloes could pull a draft load of 10 percent (93.3 kg draft) without excessive fatigue on a dirt road. The average power output per pair during four hours of operation in the summer season was maximum at 12 percent draft load. The forward speed reduced with increase is operating time and draft load. The fatigue score was well below 20 points in the summer season up to for 8 – 10 percent loading condition limiting to three hours operation. On the basis of size of buffaloes, draft capacity and observation on ploughing implements, it is suggested that the implements such as: Mould Board plough, Tendua Iron plough, Indira seed drill, Planker, Harrow patela, Puddler can be operated using buffaloes as the power source.

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