STATUS OF FARM MECHANIZATION IN INDIA Agricultural Machinery Industry in India (Manufacturing‚ marketing and mechanization promotion) Gyanendra Singh Director‚ Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering‚ Bhopal ABSTRACT Farm mechanization helps in effective utilization of inputs to increase the productivity of land and labour. Besides it helps in reducing the drudgery in farm operations. The early agricultural mechanization in India was greatly influenced by the technological development in
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Farm Machinery(http://www.india.gov.in/citizen/agriculture/index.php?id=58) The manufacture of agricultural machinery in India is quite multifaceted and comprises village artisans‚ tiny units‚ small-scale industries‚ State agro-industrial development corporations and organized tractor‚ engine and processing equipment industries. The Bureau of Indian Standards (External website that opens in a new window) (BIS) ensures that manufacture and marketing of agricultural and industrial products are of a
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crops and animal rearing and mechanization is the provision of human workers and replacement of animal labour with machinery to assist and replace physical requirement of work. Therefore agricultural mechanization embraces and implements the use of tools and machines for agricultural development‚ crop production‚ harvesting‚ storage and on farming processing. In the history of agricultural mechanization‚ a periodical development of agriculture has enhanced several advancements in farming techniques
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An agricultural cooperative‚ also known as a farmers’ co-op‚ is a cooperative where farmers pool their resources in certain areas of activity. A broad typology of agricultural cooperatives distinguishes between agricultural service cooperatives‚ which provide various services to their individually farming members‚ and agricultural production cooperatives‚ where production resources (land‚ machinery) are pooled and members farm jointly.[1] Examples of agricultural production cooperatives include collective
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of agricultural machinery headquartered in Moline‚ Illinois. What started as a small business operation has sprung into a multibillion-dollar global operation. In 2013 alone‚ the company boasted sales of $37.80 billion. Founded in 1837 by a blacksmith‚ the company originally only built plows‚ and did not assemble their first tractor until they purchased a small tractor company‚ Waterloo Boy‚ in 1918. Now the green and yellow machinery is recognized around the world. Although agricultural equipment
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multinational producer of farm machinery‚ industrial machinery and diesel engines. The company was formed through a merger between Massey-Harris and Harry Fergusson in 1953. They combined their skills to become the West’s largest producer of farm tractors and the world’s largest supplier of diesel engines to original equipment manufacturers. Massey’s farm machinery line consists of tractors‚ several harvesters and other agricultural equipment. The industrial machinery line consists mostly of several
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US Farm Equipment Industry on the basis of total manufacturers shipment and revenue generated from consumption in the US. The report provides a brief overview of agricultural equipment and machinery production in the US covered in terms of various segments such as tractors‚ harvesting machinery‚ turf‚ haying machinery‚ planting machinery and others. The report examines export-import situation of the industry‚ through the period 2006 to 2012. The analysis has been further extended to cover the competitive
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References: * Agricultural Machinery booklets (2012) from the supervisor‚ Fumman * Encyclopedia * Fraser‚ F. And Burrill (1999). Knap sack Sprayers: Use maintenance‚ accessories 31p * Kepner et al (1998): Principles of farm machinery * Ojo‚ O. A. Adebayo‚ T. A. And Babarinde‚ S. O. (2004): Principles of Agricultural Maintenance‚ Nigeria 84p * Proceeding‚ Meeting of Agricultural Engineers‚ Ahmadu Bello University‚ (1999)
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Journal of Agricultural Engineering‚ Vol. 40(2): 13-20: April-June‚ 2003 Electronic Seed Tube Blockage Detector for Tractor Drawn Seed Drill AK Rail‚ K Sivadasan 2 and SN Murty3 ABSTRACT Tractor driven seed drills are extensively used for sowing seeds. Choking of lower end of tubes in seed drills is a comJIlon problem while sowing. To detect the choking of tubes/ channels instantaneously‚ a multichannel electronic seed tube blockage detector for tractor drawn seeddrills (ESTBDTDS) has been
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1837 John Deere fashions a polished-steel plow in his Grand Detour‚ Illinois‚ blacksmith shop that lets pioneer farmers cut clean furrows through sticky Midwest prairie soil. 1838 John Deere‚ blacksmith‚ evolves into John Deere‚ manufacturer. Later he remembers building 10 plows in 1839‚ 75 in 1841‚ and 100 in 1842. 1842 John Deere adds retailing to his business‚ filling orders for the Patent Cary Plow. 1843 Deere and Leonard Andrus become "co-partners in the art and trade of blacksmithing‚ plow-making
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