AI3501 Farm Equipment and Machinery Syllabus:

AI3501 Farm Equipment and Machinery Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To introduce the students to the working principles of farm equipments, tillage implements.
 To expose the students to farm mechanization benefits and constraints, identification of components of primary and secondary tillage implements

UNIT I FARM MECHANIZATION

Farm mechanisation – objectives. Tillage – objectives – methods – primary tillage implements – secondary tillage implements – animal drawn ploughs – construction. Types of farm implements – trailed, mounted . Field capacity – forces acting on tillage tool.

UNIT II PRIMARY AND SECONDARY TILLAGE IMPLEMENTS

Mould board plough- attachments – mould board shapes and types. Disc plough – force representation on disc – Types of disc ploughs – Subsoiler plough – Rotary plough. Cultivators – types – construction. Disc harrows – Bund former – ridger – leveller. Basin lister-Wetland preparation implements.

UNIT III SOWING AND FERTILIZING EQUIPMENT

Crop planting – methods – row crop planting systems – Devices for metering seeds – furrow openers – furrow closers- types – Types of seed drills and planters – calibration-fertilizer metering devices – seed cum fertilizer drills – paddy transplanters – nursery tray machines.

UNIT IV WEEDING AND PLANT PROTECTION EQUIPMENT

Weeding equipment – hand hoe – long handled weeding tools – dryland star weeder – wetland conoweeder and rotary weeder – Engine operated and tractor weeders. Sprayers –typesclassification – methods of atomization, spray application rate, droplet size determination – volume median diameter, numerical median diameter – drift control

UNIT V HARVESTING MACHINERY

Principles of cutting crop, types of harvesting machinery, vertical conveyor reaper and binder combine harvesters, balers, threshers, tractor on top combine harvester, combine losses

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
TEXTBOOKS :

1. Jagdishwar Sahay. Elements of Agricultural Engineering. Standard Publishers Distributors, Delhi 6.,2010.
2. Michael and Ohja. Principles of Agricultural Engineering. Jain brothers, New Delhi., 2005

REFERENCES:

1. Kepner, R.A., et al. Principles of farm machinery. CBS Publishers and Distributers, Delhi. 99, 1997.
2. Harris Pearson Smith et al. Farm machinery and equipment. Tata McGraw-Hill pub., New Delhi.,1996.
3. Srivastava, A.C. Elements of Farm Machinery. Oxford and IBH Pub. Co., New Delhi, 1990.

COURSE OUTCOME:

CO1 To understand the basics of mechanizing a farm.
CO2 To understand the components of various tillage equipment.
CO3 To study about different sowing and fertilizing attachments and stand-alone units.
CO4 To study about weeder attachments and sprayers.
CO5 To study about combine harvester-thresher for various crops.