International Journal of Engineering Research in Computer Science and Engineering (IJERCSE)

Development of Manually operated Multipurpose Agriculture Machine

Author : Bhoopathi R ¹ Jagathiskumar U ² Shiva Ganesh R ³ Sanjay T ⁴ Muralidharan R ⁵

Date of Publication :10th July 2019

Abstract: India is an agriculture-based country in which, 70% of people depends on the outcome of farming. But if we observe that with increase in population the farm gets distributed among the family and because of this, farmer in India held averagely only two-acre farm. Also, economically, farmers are very poor due to which they are unable to purchase tractors and other costly equipment hence they use traditional method of farming. Basically, many farmers in India also use bullocks, horses and he-buffalo for farming operation. This will not satisfy need of energy requirement of the farming as compared to other countries in the world. So, we have developed a machine which performs different activities using various mechanisms to make agriculture more economical by reduction of manual and animal labor for small scale farmers. In this equipment we used ploughing rod, water sprayer, seed sowing and leveling attachments. This machine performs the operations like ploughing, seed sowing, water spraying and land leveling which is used for small scale farming. As an added advantage this machine is operated with the help of manual drive. By using above attachments, one may perform various farming operations in less time and cost with reduced man power resources

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