COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF POTATO DIGGER ELEVATOR WITH CONVENTIONAL METHOD OF HARVESTING AT FARMER'S FIELDS


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Authors

  • R.D. Singh
  • H.M. Singh
  • R.D. Singh

Abstract

A tractor mounted two-row potato digger elevator was tested for its performance at varlous locations in farmers' field during 2000-02. The results of the study indicated that the actual field capacity was 0.50,0021, 0 25 and 0021 ha/h in tractor mounted potaio dIgger elevator, manual digging by Khurpa, tractor drawn cultivator and bullock drawn desi plough respectively in second pass The labour requrement in different treatments showed a saving of 1280 man-hours per hectare in case of machme as compared to manual harvesting. The lowest tuber damage was recorded (0.8%).In potato digger-elevator as compared to other methods.

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Author Biographies

  • R.D. Singh
    Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, College of Agril Eng & Tech, NDUA&T, Kumarganj, Falzabad 224 229 Uttar Pradesh, India
  • H.M. Singh
    Department of Entomology, College of Agnl, N D U A &T, Kumarganj, Falzabad 224 229, Uttar Pradesh, India
  • R.D. Singh
    Department of Vegetable Science, College of Agril, N D U A &T , KumarganJ, Faizabad 224 229, Uttar Pradesh,
    India

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Vol. 31 No. 3-4 (2004)

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How to Cite

Singh, R., Singh, H., & Singh, R. (2014). COMPARATIVE PERFORMANCE OF POTATO DIGGER ELEVATOR WITH CONVENTIONAL METHOD OF HARVESTING AT FARMER’S FIELDS. Potato Journal, 31(3-4). https://epubs.icar.org.in/index.php/PotatoJ/article/view/38816