Mechanical Harvesting of Cotton : A Global Research Scenario and Indian Case Studies
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S. K. SHUKLA
Principal Scientist, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai-400019
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V. G. ARUDE
Senior Scientist, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai-400019
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S. M. DESHMUKH
SRF, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai-400019
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P. G. PATIL
Director, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai-400019
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V. MAGESHWARAN
Scientist, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai-400019
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C. SUNDARAMOORTHY
Senior Scientist, ICAR-Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology, Mumbai-400019
Keywords:
Picker, Harvesting efficiency, fibre quality, stripper, manuals, pickingAbstract
Cotton farmers in India are looking for mechanization of cotton harvesting in the wake of reduced farm labour availability and significant increase in manual cotton picking cost. Small land holdings are making adoption of existing advanced pickers and strippers economically unviable. In India, considerable work towards development of viable and appropriate picker and stripper prototypes is going on for over last two decades. Field performance, fibre quality parameters, maintenance and fuel costs and economic returns, of 1-row cotton picker developed by John Deere India and finger type stripper developed by ICAR institutes are presented in this paper. In addition, an exhaustive review of the past work dealing with manual versus picker and stripper harvesting systems of cotton in terms of trash content, fibre quality parameters, maintenance cost, fuel above cost and economic returns are also presented in this work. Field evaluations have demonstrated that these cotton harvesters developed in India are performing at par with commercially available pickers and strippers used in USA and Australia.References
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