Rotavator Overview – Uses and Functions

 A rotary tiller also popularly known as rotavator is used for soil preparation before planting seeds of the crops. It is used as a tractor implement pulled behind it to drag through the area for making seedbed. It uses rotating blades that are also known as rotors attached to a frame either to the rear or front of a tiller. These rotors spin and cut though the soil to make it suitable for planting cop seeds. It also breaks small and big clods, increase moist and pulverizes the soil providing it a healthy environment for plants to grow and to get high yield.

Rotavator is specifically used to prepare the land for sowing seeds and is very popular among farmers because of its effectiveness. It is cheaper if we talk about maintenance, economical to use and also needs less storage space. The type of rotavator a farmer needs usually depends on the surface soil. Rotavators can work at different speeds just need to adjust its settings which allow the rotors or blades to move slower or faster. A farmer may also take a test run of a rotary tiller on the soil at their farm to decide its speed. A farmer must be careful when choosing the right rotovator for his farm so that they don’t get stuck with the wrong one. And once the buy it, they should use and maintain it properly.

Uses and Function of a Rotavator or Rotary Tiller:

·         Breaks up the clods in the soil

·         Loosen the soil giving a smooth surface.

·         Prepares a perfect seedbed for sowing seeds.

·         Turns the topsoil that allows plants to absorb maximum amount of nutrition available in the soil.

·         Helps in increasing the yield

·         Kills the weeds and removes old crop residue.

·         Rotavator is versatile machinery that can be used in primary as well as secondary tillage.

·         Its suitable to work in different types of soils.

·         It is mostly used for cultivating vegetables and in paddy field.

 

A farmer can save a lot of time and money that needs to be invested in tillage process, as a rotavator is a versatile equipment, that allows making a perfect seedbed in all new or existing farm land.

Combine – Overview and Benefits in Harvesting

 A ‘Combine’ is a modern self-propelled combine harvester, which gets its name due to its capability of combining all the harvesting steps into one inside the machine. The modern combine harvester has evolved as complex machinery that uses a significant amount of energy to work into the grain and crops field. It mechanically processes all the required steps for harvesting the crops. This modern harvester machine has replaced the many old fashioned machine like a thresher, grain reaper and binder that were earlier used to cut and gather the grain to place grain in shocks to let it dry in the field prior to carrying to a fixed threshing machine.

A combine harvester is compatible for harvesting crops like potatoes, carrots and beets as well as many types of grains like wheat, rice, corn, barley, soybean, pulses, sunflower etc. Self-propelled combine harvester are indeed a part of a fastest developing agricultural machinery market. Modern harvesters collects cuts, the grain process it and clean it in such a way that it can be directly delivered to the markets from the farm. The crop residues are thrown back into the fields in the form of fluffy straw 2-3 m wide, which can be baled easily and can be kept safe to be used to feed animals at dairy farms till a long time.

The combine machine has multiple benefits for farmers such as –

• During manual harvesting sometimes unseasonal excessive rains can damage the standing crops during the harvesting season which can slow down the process of harvesting. Though while using combine harvester farmers can complete the harvesting in very less time.
•  A combine harvester alone can harvest acres of land in hours that saves farmers from wasting time in arranging labours and also saves the cost of labours.
• The grains are cleaner and ready to use as soon as it gets out of the machine, so it can be directly delivered to the market, which saves the storage cost for farmers
• A multi-crop harvester can be used for harvesting various types of grains, a farmer just need to use the different headers as per the crop type.
• Modern combine harvesters are usually equipped with many advanced technologies as ac cabins and gps systems that allows the generation of digital yield maps.

Overall the machine is worth an investment for grain farmers as it alone can handle the work of a dozen of people, and delivers the high quality grains resulting into better profits.