2024, Vol. 7, Special Issue 4

author(s)
Prashant M Dikkar, Prashant M Dsouza, Sheen C Moses, Rana N Aalam and Sarvesh Kumar

abstract
The agricultural tractor is at the centre point of agricultural mechanization. Tractor and farm machinery costs have great influence on farm business profit. Larger machines, new technology, higher prices for parts and new machinery and higher energy prices have all caused machinery and power costs to rise in recent years. In order to improve decision-making, the operational cost of raised bed type garlic planters was examined and compared with manually operated single row garlic planters along with conventional planting. The effectively field capacity were found as 0.183 ha/hr, 0.0367 ha/h and 0.00178 ha/h for raised bed type garlic planter, manual operated single row planter and conventional methods. The operational cost of the raised bed type garlic planter, manual operated single row planter and conventional methods were found as 4026, 3081 and 16100 ₹/ha, respectively. The pay-back period of the developed garlic planter was found to be 104 days.