Turmeric/Ginger Planter

Details: Conventionally, labors have to dig the soil to sow ginger/turmeric. This is tedious; time consuming and back breaking task due to regular bending posture at the time of sowing. Mr. Inderjit hence decided to work on this problem and thus came up with a ginger/turmeric sowing machine.This equipment consists of following parts viz. Feeder, metering mechanism, chain drive, bevel gears, rotating discs, adjustable furrow openers etc. It is a tractor mounted turmeric/ginger planter with adjustable row spacing from 4.5 to 5.5 ft. A wheel is provided at the base that can adjust the plant to plant distance, which can be varied from 6 inch, 9 inch and 12 inch.

Innovator: Indrajit Balvirsingh Khas, Aurangabad, Maharashtra

State: Aurangabad, Maharashtra

Funding agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India

Implementing institute: National Innovation Foundation India (NIF), info.nif@nifindia.org