Multi Crop Planter

Agricultural work in India is carried out by using manual, animal and mechanical power sources.In Chhattisgarh state, the situation is not different. The state is far behind in mechanization of farm operations with only 32,000 tractors in the state. About 75 per cent farmers are dependent on animal power for farm operations with 8 million draught animals. In this region, bullocks and he buffaloes are the major power sources. The land holdings patterns of Chhattisgarh in general are small and marginal. The farmers of this state have traditional animal drawn implements, which in most of the cases have low capacity, do not match with the draught animal power source and ultimately affect the agricultural operations. Hence development of animal drawn implements has a vital role to play in partial mechanization of the farms in the state to increase the efficiency and better utilization of draught animals. The prototype light weight five row animal drawn multi crop planter was design, developed and evaluated. This book provides information for seeding chick pea, green gram, pigeon pea, groundnut, wheat seed with fertilizer application.