Design and Development of Solar Powered Autonomous Multi Crop Planting Machine

Abstract

Turmeric is one of the most profitable cultivation for farmers.Planting of turmeric using manualmethods is one of the tedious method followed by farmers even today. Large number of skilled labors are required for sowing turmeric tuber. One persondigs the soil and the other person sows the turmeric tuber in the digged place. Availability of skilled labor is yet another concern for farmers. Due to the low market procurement cost for turmeric, farmers cannot get high profit as they need to invest more money. Hence, an alternate is required to find optimal solution for planting turmeric tuber. The objective of the proposed work is to design and develop an automatic planting machine without human intervention. Solar powered traction system is used for machine mobility which contains spades and storage hopper. The movement of machine can be controlled through wired and unwired techniques which reduces the planting complexity. Only one skilled labor is sufficient to carry out entire planting process. So, the expenses made towards labor wages will get reduced drastically and thus enhances the profit for farmers. In-addition, the effort and time of labor is saved. Compared to conventional techniques, the proposed machine reduces 70% of planting cost.