Agricultural Equipment

Since ancient times people have been usingsome tools to help them to grow and harvest crops like the hoe rake trowel oxen driven plough etc. With the advent of time agricultural equipment have seen large scale automation making farming less laborious and faster. Todaya s agricultural equipment not only facilitates to cultivate and harvest crops they also help farmers to prepare the soil for the next crop and to harvest the ripened crops.

Farm equipment invariably includes any mechanical or electrical component that transmits or modifies energy to perform a variety of tasks. Examples of some agricultural equipment include: balers conveyors manure spreaders bale choppers mowers shredders harvesters grinders blowers power washers augers etc. Agricultural equipment available in the market and thus to farmers worldwide provide ease of farming practices include planting weeding fertilizing and combating pests. In short one can summarize the importance of agricultural equipment in one sentence by saying that while farms provide our food the farm equipment provide the horse power to grow our food.

The widely used Agricultural Implements or equipment today include:  

• Agricultural Paddy Reaper a Diesel operated Ms body 3 square meters or more cutting capacity per hour.
• Power Weeder a Tool to remove the weeds from agricultural fields gardens and lawns. It consists of gear oil box and differs in engine oil capacity.
• Manual Paddy Weeder a It is a manual driven type tool made of ms material ranging in weights of 4 to 5 kgs. It prevents the damage to rice plants by removing weed. 

Applications of agricultural equipment/tools:

• Wetland weeding
• Farm cultivating
• Chaff cutting
• Leveling the ground
• Vegetables and soil digging 

Feeding an ever-increasing world population and above that the demand for a more varied diet that is produced in a socially sustainable manner is certainly not easy. But thanks to modern agricultural equipment and the ever-changing technologies around them that has partially helped with this task.