Innovation Detail

Innovation Description

Purpose:
The weeds decrease vegetables and crop production. Thus it is necessary to remove those weeds. The innovator invented passive weeder which is power operated, to get rid of unwanted plants.

Technical details:
The weeder developed by the innovator is a self-propelled cultivator having a passive tillage tool (reversible shovel type with tynes) where the operator needs to walk behind the machine. With an average coverage of 0.4-0.5 acre/h at average fuel consumption 0.5 lit/h, this weeder fills the gap between small tractor and draft animal operated tillage machinery. They can also be used for secondary tillage operation, sowing and applying fertilizer/ insecticides apart from hoeing and weeding.