PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF MONO WHEEL

OPERATED SPRAYER CUM WEEDER

Shambhu Singh, A.K.Dave and D.Padhee
M. Tech Student, Professor and Assistant Professor
Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, IGKV, Raipur (C.G.).
Corresponding Author: Email-sham1991paikra@gmail.com

ABSTRACT
An experiment was conducted to evaluate the field performance of developed mono-
wheel operated sprayer cum weeder at BRSM CAET & RS Mungeli, in Chhattisgarh, India.
For dry land crop, the machine was test on chickpea crop various parameters such as field
capacity, weeding efficiency, draft requirement and performance index of the weeder was
measured during the test. The developed sprayer cum weeder machine can work up to 3.0-4.0
cm depth of operation with actual field capacity of weeder 0.031 ha/h, sprayer 0.075 ha/h and
field efficiency of weeder 65.54 percent, sprayer 56.41 per cent. The draft requirement was
193N (0.079 hp) for 25 cm width of weeder. The weeding efficiency of the weeder machine
was found to be 88.15 per cent with performance index of 12622.1.sprayer application rate
was found to be 639.09 l/ha, sprayer overlap 1-2, 2-3, nozzle was found to be 10-16 percent.
The experiment also revealed that the weeding and spraying operation time requirement for
developed mono-wheel operated sprayer cum weeder weeder was much less than the manual
spraying and weeding. It was easy to operate and most importantly involved less human
drudgery during its operation.

Key words- flexible weeder, multi nozzle adjusted sprayer, time, and cost, pressure, field
efficiency.