Tractor Powered Sprayer
Details: The general practice in cotton farms is that the labours have to hold the spray boom of the tractor mounted sprayers for spraying pesticides. This makes spraying slow and tiring for the labourers. Gurmeet developed a tractor mounted PTO powered machine to spray over crops of small height (mainly cotton). The sprayer has two semi-revolving guns, which continuously spray liquid with an automatic semi-circular movement using four bar mechanism and two independent hydraulic controllable arms. Its working width is 23m, spraying height is 2.1m, coverage area is 5 ha/h and fuel consumption is 2 lit/h at a working speed of 2-3 kmph.
Innovator: Gurmeet Singh Bhupal, Hanumangarh, Rajasthan
State: Hanumangarh, Rajasthan
Funding agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India
Implementing institute: National Innovation Foundation India (NIF), info.nif@nifindia.org
Benefits
This sprayer automates spraying in cotton farms, eliminating manual labor and fatigue. Its features, like wide working width (23 meters) and automatic semi-circular spraying, improve efficiency (5 hectares per hour) with lower fuel consumption (2 liters per hour).