The residue management in farming system is the emerging issue for the sustainable yield. Presently After harvesting of crops, residues are burn in open field. No in-situ recycling of crop residue practices are followed. The abundant crop residues are available for the recycling and thereby enhancing the soil health. The self propelled slasher, slashes standing crop residue and spreads it over the soil. The use of such machine saves the land preparation operation and provides the in-situ management of crop residue.

It is recommended to use Self Propelled Slasher for slashing all standing crop residues, grasses, bushes etc.

Cost of operation is Rs. 250 to 400 per hectare. Saving in cost over traditional land preparation operation is 45 to 75 per cent with ease in operation.

Sowing, interculture and harvesting operations need to be done timely. The harvesting operation is done by human labour in bending posture, which is most tedious & drudgerious operation. Delay in harvesting causes heavy losses in yield. Some of the crops are hard to harvest. Harvesting operation consists of cutting and conveying of crops. The harvesters basically designed for wheat crop are not suitable for crop like soybean, chickpea, and gram. The harvesters are difficult to operate in small field. The self propelled multi-crop reaper is found to overcome the difficulties faced in small farming.

It is recommended to use Self Propelled Multi-crop reaper for harvesting of soybean, black gram, green gram, chick pea, safflower, paddy, wheat, pigeon pea, sorghum, maize, pearl millet and jute.

Cost of operation is Rs. 380 to 405 per hectare. Saving in cost over traditional operation is 65 to 70 per cent with ease in operation.

Sowing is the most important crop production operation. Traditionally, bullock power is mostly use for the sowing. The precision and timely sowing enhances the yield. Now a days the skill workers are not available for sowing operation. Similarly, the bullock and labour power is decreasing day by day which results in high cost of operation as well as delay in sowing.. Some crops can be sown by tractor in dry conditions only. Tractors are also not suitable for sowing some crops according to their sowing system and pattern. Frequent tractor operations in rainy season result high compaction problem in soil. With help of this planter it is possible to maintain the uniform seed to seed distance within the row. The self propelled pneumatic planter works in various soil conditions which satisfies the farmers sowing needs.

It is recommended to use Self Propelled Pneumatic Planter for Sowing of all seed crops.

Cost of operation is Rs. 240 to 300 per hectare. Saving in cost over traditional sowing operation is Rs. 510 per hectare with ease in operation.

Tilling the soil in cloddy field as well as in orchards is generally done by bullock drawn ploughs which is drudgerous and time consuming. There is difficulty for the bullocks to work in the orchards and the quality of work done by traditional methods is less because of the restriction of the movement of bullocks to every corner of the field

PDKV developed power tool bar operated tiller is recommended for tillage in cloddy field, orchard and for marking broad bed furrow (BBF).

The operational cost was Rs. 783/- per hectare. The cost of operation for BBF formation was found to be 280 Rs./ha.

The cotton is the major crop of vidarbha region, after harvesting the cotton stalks/ plants need to be immediately uprooted to avoid the loss of moisture and nutrients from the soil due to standing crop. Most of the stalks are uprooted by using manual fork or use of tractor operated V-blade/ duckfoot cultivator. The uprooted stalks collection their transportation and storage are very tedious and labour intensive operation.

PDKV developed tractor operated Slasher is recommended for slashing of standing crop residue.

Slashing of standing crop residues of all the crops. Disintegration and incorporation of crop residue can be done easily by rotavator.

The cost of operation was Rs. 346/- per ha. Cost saving was 76.5 % over traditional method.

In drip irrigation system when the season of the crop have ended then it is necessary to collect the lateral from the field. The collection of the lateral from the field is a very tedious work. Sometime collection affect on the lateral by means of breakage etc. The traditional collection of the lateral from the field require the more labour and the time. To reduce the drudgery in such operation PDKV Manual Drip Lateral Coiler is the effective technology for the collection of lateral from the field.

It is recommended to use PDKV Manual Drip Lateral Coiler.

For coiling and de-coiling of drip lateral.

Saving in collection cost and time of lateral.

This machine is useful for the disintegration of the crop residue after the post harvest operation. The disintegrated crop residues when kept with moisture for the 45 days easily convert in to organic manure or vermi compost.

It recommended to use PDKV Disintegrator Machine for crop residue disintegration.

For organic manure preparation
Vermi compost.

Saving in cost of production of organic manure.

The problem of land preparation after harvest of paddy has always been raised by the farmers of rice growing areas. The soil becomes very hard due to loss of moisture and is very difficult to till the land with conventional bullock drawn implements like desi plough, harrow etc. It is reported that even tractor operated MB plough could not be operated in this condition and it is needed to evolve some strategy for land preparation in paddy for rabi crop.

It is recommended to use PKV modified serrated disc plough for preparation of hard paddy land by the farmers

for preparation of hard paddy land by the farmers

Cost of operation is Rs. 2185/-per ha and fuel consumption is 3.2 lit/h.

Harvesting of crop is generally a manual operation in vidarbha region. Among the hand tools which are used for harvesting the sickle is one of the important tool used by farmers. Since long ago, due to its easy operation, low cost easy availability, simplicity in construction, can be manufactured by village artisans and its versatility. Due to poor economic condition and small land holdings majority of farmers are still using sickles for harvesting purpose.

It is recommended to use PKV serrated sickle for harvesting of paddy crop.

Serrated blade sickle is found efficient for harvesting paddy crop closer to the ground, reduces harvesting time, human labour and drudgery while harvesting.

Harvesting efficiency and field capacity was 87% and 0.0115 ha/h respectively, cutting energy was found to be 0.0841 kg-m.

This equipment is use for dual purpose.
I) Traditionally sugarcane set is being cut manually with the help of KYOTA. To reduce drudgery with increase efficiency in set cutting operation the said cutter is developed.
II) Small and Marginal farmer having one or two cattle feeds them by cutting forage in one or two pieces with the help of sickle. Cattle don’t consume long piece of forage which results in 40 percent wastage of costly forage. This equipment helps in making small pieces (Kutti) of the forage.

It recommended to use PKV CUTTER for making sugarcane set and forage cutting operation.

To use sugarcane set cum forage cutter for reduce drudgery with increase efficiency for making sugarcane set and for making small pieces of forage.

Saving in time.