In this article subject code AI3501 deals with the Farm Equipment and Machinery Syllabus of Anna University B.Tech Agricultural Engineering syllabus, Regulation 2021. This will help you to understand the academic syllabus well in one place.
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Aim Of 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.
AI3501 – Farm Equipment and Machinery Syllabus
Unit I: Farm Mechanization
Farm mechanization – 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 –type classification – 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.
Textbooks:
- Jagdishwar Sahay. Elements of Agricultural Engineering. Standard Publishers Distributors, Delhi 6.,2010.
- Michael and Ojha. Principles of Agricultural Engineering. Jain brothers, New Delhi., 2005.
References:
- Kepner, R.A., et al. Principles of farm machinery. CBS Publishers and Distributers, Delhi. 99, 1997.
- Harris Pearson Smith et al. Farm machinery and equipment. Tata McGraw-Hill pub., New Delhi.,1996.
- Srivastava, A.C. Elements of Farm Machinery. Oxford and IBH Pub. Co., New Delhi, 1990.
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