Fodder harvesting is a tedious operation in agriculture field. In India, agriculture is facing serious challenges of scarcity of agricultural labour not only in peak seasons but almost throughout the year. It is very time consuming and stressful operation. | 2020 9 10 2126-2132 International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 10 2020 Journal homepage http Original Research Article https Development of Manually Drawn Engine Powered Fodder Crop Harvester M. V. Jalu V. K. Tiwari and V. S. Vala Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering Collage of Agricultural Engineering and Technology JAU Junagadh Gujarat India Corresponding author ABSTRACT Keywords Fodder harvesting is a tedious operation in agriculture field. In India agriculture is facing serious challenges of scarcity of agricultural labour not Fodder crop Harvesting only in peak seasons but almost throughout the year. It is very time Mechanization consuming and stressful operation. A manually drown engine powered Cutting efficiency fodder crop harvester was developed in the department of FMPE at CAET JAU Junagadh. Three different forward speed and Article Info km h were used for the test performance. The maximum cutting efficiency Accepted field efficiency and minimum plant damage 17 September 2020 were found at speed range of - km h. The total cost saving of Available Online 10 October 2020 developed fodder crop harvester was found as compare to manual harvesting. Introduction Therefore a manually drawn engine powered fodder crop harvester to reduce working stress Fodder maize is one of the important fodder and increase working capacity of a man was crops of India. India is one of the top 10 developed and it s performance was evaluated maize producers in the world it contributes in the department of farm machinery and around 2-3 of the total maize produced power engineering at collage of agricultural globally from the area of Mha and with engineering and technology JAU Junagadh. production of MT. From total production of maize around 13 is used for Amer Eissa et .
