Farm Machinery and Equipment: Practical Manual (Based on 5th Deans Recommendations)

Contents: 1. Study of different types of sprayers, their types and functional components. 2. Study of dusters, their types and functional components. 3. Study of calibration of sprayer and calculations for chemical application rates. 4. Study of nozzle types and spread pattern using patternator. 5. Familiarization with manual and powered weeding equipment and identication of functional components. 6. Study of various types of mowers and functional components. 7. To study various types of reapers and functional components. 8. Study of fertilizer application equipment including manure spreaders and fertilizer broadcasters. 9. Familiarization with threshing systems and cleaning systems in threshers. 10. Calculations of losses in threshers. 11. Familiarization with functional units of grain combines and their types. 12. Calculations for grain losses in a combine. 13. Study of root crop diggers and familiarization with the functional units and attachments 14. Familiarization with the working of cotton harvesters. 15. Familiarization with the working of maize harvesters. 16. Familiarization with different types of fruit harvester. This book contains 16 practical covering different farm machines and equipment being used for spraying/dusting, fertilizer application, weeding operation, harvesting and threshing of cereal/cash crops, harvesting of tuber crops and fruits crops. Features: Latest farm machinery available in the market have been incorporated in the book. For better understanding schematic diagrams and overview of working operations have been added. A few exercises, numerical problems and calculations to be carried out by the students have been added at the end of each practical.…