Fundamentals of Agricultural Machinery

This book is intended to serve as a medium for dissemination of scientific and technical information emanated from research on agricultural engineering technology to the world. The book is aimed at providing technical guidelines to those who involved in the practice of agricultural engineering technology, farmers, field assistants, engineers, researchers, students and decision makers. It contains detailed engineering approaches to the development of: Multi-oil seed extracting machine; Comparative study on the processing parameters of carrot juice; Banana puree extracting machine, Row-crop precision planter; Effect of temperature, drying time and thickness of slices on weight losses of yam during drying; and An automatic Tomato paste machine.