COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN OPTIMIZATION AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF PNEUMATIC SUCTION BASED COTTON PICKING MACHINE

D.D. TEKALE¹, G.U. SHINDE²*, K. RAVI KUMAR^3
1Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, 431402, M.S., India
²Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, 431402, M.S., India; NAHEP-CAAST-DFSRDA, Parbhani, 431402, M.S., India
³NAHEP-CAAST-DFSRDA, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, 431402, M.S., India
* Corresponding Author : gushindevnmkv@gmail.com

Received : 01-02-2021     Accepted : 26-02-2021     Published : 28-02-2021
Volume : 13     Issue : 2       Pages : 10656 - 10662
Int J Agr Sci 13.2 (2021):10656-10662

Keywords : Pneumatic suction, Cotton picking machine, Solar panel, Invertor, Hose pipe
Academic Editor : Dr Vipul N Kapadia, Dr Amatul Muhee
Conflict of Interest : None declared
Acknowledgements/Funding : Authors are thankful to Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Vasantrao Naik Marathwada Agricultural University, Parbhani, 431402, M.S., India. Authors are thankful to NAHEP-CAAST-DFSRDA, Parbhani, 431402, M.S., India for financial support for this research
Author Contribution : All authors equally contributed

The cotton picking is the major problems faced by the small and farmers due to scare of harvesting labor and affordable technology near about 30% cost of cultivation of the cotton crop is required for harvesting of cotton in India. Manual picking of cotton is labor intensive, requiring average 1565 man hours per hectare. The proposed research work introduces a computer aided design optimization and fabrication of pneumatic suction based solar operated cotton boll picking machine with single man/women operator. The performance of newly developed machine is compared with manual picking method. The Cost of cotton boll picking Rs. /ha of cotton boll picking machine for variety PDKV-2BG-ll and Hybrid of Bt. cotton NHH 44 bt. for suction hose pipe length 1.50 m and 120x30 cm plant spacing observed as Rs. 12809.35, and14697.60 per ha cotton harvested respectively whereas by manual method its observed was Rs.13630.50 and 20285.70 per hectare for two varieties respectively

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