Farm Machinery & Equipment-I (AN403)-Agriculture Engineering (IV-Semester) | RGPV

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• Syllabus

• Syllabus - Farm Machinery & Equipment-I (AN403)

• Introduction to farm mechanization

• Scope, Merits, Limitations, Status of mechanization
• Classification of farm machines
• Power units / sources for farm machinery
• Economics of machinery usage

• Land reclamation and earth moving equipment

• Seed bed preparation operations
• Introduction to machines / implements used for primary and secondary tillage operations
• Study of cultivator

• Introduction to sowing, planting & transplanting equipment

• Introduction to seed drills, no-till drills, and strip-till drills
• Introduction to planters, bed-planters and other planting equipment

• Introduction to materials used in construction of farm machines

• Heat treatment processes and their requirement in farm machines
• Properties of materials used for critical and functional components of agricultural machines