Innovation Detail

Innovation Description

Profile: 
Innovator Mr. Ranjit Mirig is from the Sambalpur district of Odisha.

Purpose:
Mr. Ranjit Mirig made paddy transplanter used to transplanting paddy seedlings to the fields which will work by using manual power. 

Technical Details:
The manual paddy transplanter requires two persons for its operation. One person is needed to pull the machine while another for cranking the handle in order to provide the drive to seedlings’ trays and fingers, which place the seedling in the soil bed. The machine can transplant five rows while maintaining row to row spacing of about 18 cm and plant to plant spacing of about 15 cm. 

Performance:
It has a field capacity of 0.3 acres/h. 
It is found to consume less than one-seventh of the time required for manual plantation and double the time needed by a self-propelled machine to cover the same area.

Benefits: 
The conventional way of transplanting rice seedling requires standing in water for a long time, leading to skin infections, This innovation significantly lowers the time required for transplanting rice seedlings. Since laborers need to stand in the water for a shorter time, it reduces the chances of getting skin infections
This is pollutionless technology.
The time required is less as compared to the manually transplanting system. 
The cost of a machine is affordable.