EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The survey was conducted at Peddhatekkur, Bhumaigh gari palli villages on

16/01/2020. A series of 17 questions was framed and were asked to nearly 30 peoples.
Based on their responses, a complete data was collected and it was manipulated. We have
also received new suggestions for improvising our device. A deep interaction was held
among the farmers to have deep analysis of data for developing the device successfully.

SURVEY OBJECTIVES
The objective of the field survey is,
 To know the methodology to adopted to pluck the unwanted weeds in
agricultural land.
 To analyze the difficulties in removing weeds in agricultural land.
 To determine average cost spent by the farmers to remove the unwanted
weeds in agricultural land.
 To get suggestion/improvement for our idea/ product.

PARTICIPANTS
1. S.Ramalakshumma
2. Peddha Ramuluu
3. K.Krishna Mohan
4. Gopal
5. K.Prathap
6. Sunkkanna
7. Lakshmi
8. Suseelamma
9. Malleswaramma
10. G.Ranga Reddy
11. C.Sumathi
12. G.Narayana Reddy
13. S.Viswanath Reddy
14. K.Sailaja
15. O.Nageswar Reddy
16. S.Tulasamma
17. Chandra
18. E.Hanumanthu Reddy
19. O.Venkata Krishna Reddy
20. V.Malla Reddy
21. E.Gangi Reddy
22. Narshimha Reddy
23. Venkkana
24. Lakshmamma
25. Yellamma
26. Naresh
27. Kondamma

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 28. Nagendra
29. B.Mallaih
30. Mallanna

METHODOLOGY
The survey was conducted using offline method and direct farmers visit.

DATA COLLECTED
The facilitator collected two forms of data:

 Qualitative: 17 quality questions was prepared and surveyed.

 Quantitative: Data collected from 30 peoples

RESULTS
The results are broken out by category and listed by question.
Questions

Questions with options….

 Q1): How many acres are you having?

Response
1
6 3 Acres
5Acres
14 10Acres
15Acres

Fig:1

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Q2): How many acres are you using to forming the land?

SI.NO ACRES RESPONSE

1 1-3 14

2 3-5 09

3 5-10 06

4 >10 01

Table:1

Q3): Which type of crops are you forming in the land?

50
45
40
Response in percetage

35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
Banana Flowers Tomato Groundnuts
Fig:2

Q4): Are you feeling any difficulty to remove the weeds in your land?

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Response in Percentage
100
80
60
40
20
0
YES NO
Fig:3

Q5): Which process you are implementing to remove the weeds in your land?

RESPONSE

25
BY MAN POWER
BY MACHINES
BY CHEMICALS
OTHERS
75

Fig:4

Q6): Are you spending the more time to remove the weeds?

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100
Response in percentage

80
60
40
20
0
YES NO
Fig:5
Q7): How much average cost you are spending to remove the weeds in your land?

18

16

14

12

10
Response

0
2500/- to 3000/- 3000/- to 5000/- >5000/-
Fig:6

Q8): Are you wasting the more money to remove the weeds?

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 100%
80%

60%

40% RESPONSE
20%

0%
YES NO
Fig:7
Q9): Which type of soil you are getting more unwanted weeds?

RESPONSE

BLACK SOIL
RED SOIL
40
SAND SOIL
OTHERS
60

Fig:8

Q10): For what type of seasons you are getting more unwanted weeds in your region?

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40
Response in percenntage

20
0
N N N R S
S O O O E
EA AS AS H
S SE SE OT
TER O N ER
O M
IN NS M
W
M
O SU
Fig:9

Q11): Are you interested in any automatic type of machines to removing the weeds?

100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30% RESPONSE
20%
10%
0%
YES NO
Fig:10

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Q12): We are proposing an automatic weeding machine whether is its good idea or not?

100%

80%

60%

40% RESPONSE
20%

0%
YES NO
Fig:11

Q13): Are you interested to buy our automatic weeding machine?

100%
90%
80%
70%
60%
50%
40%
30% RESPONSE
20%
10%
0%
YES NO
Fig:12

Q14): How much cost you are expecting our automatic weeding machine?

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16

14

12

10
Response

0
2500/- to 5000/- 5000/- to 8000/- >8000/-
Fig:13
Q15): How much time you are expecting to remove the weeds (per 1 acre) by using our
automatic weeding machine?

16
12
8
RESPONSE
4
0
urs urs urs urs
Ho Ho Ho Ho
03 05 06 10
Fig:14

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RECOMMENDATIONS

Recommendation Effect

1 Price of the product. Low

2 Time taken to pluck the weeds by using automatic weeding machine Low

3 Man, works are not needed. Low

APPENDIX A – SURVEY QUESTIONS

1. What is your name and address?
2. How many acres are you having?
3. How many acres are using to forming the land?
4. Which type of crops you are forming in your land?
5. Are you feeling any difficulty to remove the weeds in your land?
6. Which process you are implementing to remove the weeds in your land?
7. Are you spending the more time to remove the weeds?
8. How much average cost your spending to remove the weeds in your land?
9. Are you wasting more money to remove the weeds?
10. Which type of soil you are getting more unwanted weeds?
11. For what type of season you are getting more unwanted weeds in your region?
12. Are you interested in any automatic type of machines to remove the weeds?
13. We are proposing automatic weeding machine whether is its good idea or not?
14. Are you interested to buy our automatic weeding machine?
15. How much cost your expecting our automatic weeding machine?
16. How much time you are expecting to remove the weeds (per 1 Acre) by using our
automatic weeding machine?
17. Are you interested to add any feature to our product? Kindly give your
suggestion.

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 APPENDIX B – SURVEY VISIT PHOTO:

Fig:15 Peddhatekkur Village ,Kurnool.

Fig:16 Bhumaigh gari palli, Kadapa.

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 Fig:17 Vemula Village ,Kadapa. Fig:18 Chinnatekkur Village,Kurnool.

Fig:19

Bhumaigh gari palli Village, Kadapa.

APPENDIX C – SAMPLE SURVEY FORM

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Fig:20 Kadaneri Village ,Virudhnagar District ,Tamilnadu.

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