Design of animal-drawn cereal grains no-till planter Ghebreyesus Mehari1, Tesfay Yared1, Habteab Luwam1, Eyob Mehari1, Beyene Yonatan1, Tewelde Rteei1, Ahmad Jawed1, Naqvi Syed Danish Yaseen2,* 1Department of Agricultural Engineering, Mai Nefhi College of Engineering and Technology, Eritrea (East Africa) 2Krishi Rakshak Samiti Sahaswan, Budaun-243 638, Uttar Pradesh, India *e-mail: syeddanishnaqvi84@ gmail.com
Online Published on 11 January, 2024. Abstract The development of the no-till system in Eritrea presents a significant opportunity to achieve earlier and more timely planting. Tillage wastes a lot of time, energy, and a lot of money in the form of fuel, labor, and equipment concerning the lifestyle of Eritrean farmers. Therefore, to solve this problem animal drawn no-till planter is designed to make the farming operation easy and efficient, simple to operate, it reduces the amount of work for tillage and combines several steps of tillage in the machine. No-till systems can be designed in different forms of tractor-mounted, manually operated, and animal-drawn planters. These mechanized systems would introduce additional barriers to adoption including the high cost of investment, availability and cost of fuel, and the need to use syndication ownership models. So due to the economic standard of living of local farmers animal-drawn no-till planter is more efficient for smallholder farmers. Animal-drawn no-till planter is designed with a pulling force of 73.5 kgf walking speed of 0.6m/s and with a frame dimension of 1000 mm x 450 mm x 50 mm. The equipment used in this design is made locally available, making the overall cost cheap and affordable to the farmers in contrast with no-till planters imported from overseas so that farmers do not face difficulties in obtaining these planters and providing a basic saving from budgeting a large amount of currency for importing a conventional tiller machine. To attain better accuracy, fabrication of the designed animal-drawn planter in the actual field with local materials is advisable to give major concern in future work. And also, testing and evaluation performance of the animal-drawn no-till planter is highly recommended. Top Keywords Planter, Animal drawn, Tiller machine, Tillage. Top |