Design and development of a multi-utility agricultural vehicle

Abstract

India is set to be an agricultural based country. Approximately 75% of population of India is dependent on farming directly or indirectly. Our farmers are using the same methods and equipment for the ages. Eg: seed sowing, spraying, weeding etc. There is need for development of effective spraying and weeding machine for increasing the productivity. The main objective of our project is to design and development of semi-automated multipurpose agricultural wheel hoe to use of weeding, ploughing and cultivating in single equipment. Our aim is to reduce the man power required for the operation of the wheel hoe. The only way is to automate it but we cannot fully automate it due to few constraints such as it will require electricity which will not be mostly available in villages, we will be requiring Microprocessor and sensors which will again increase the cost and might require skill to use it.