An Overview of Agriculture Machinery

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    Agriculture machinery constitutes all those types of machinery that help farmers to carry out the various processes required to enhance the output of quality crops.

    In the current era, mechanization has become the mantra of the farming industry. Now in the whole world, most of the farmer is using agriculture machinery. In ancient times, people mostly depended on manual processes and there was no trace of any agriculture equipment. That time farmers had to sacrifice a lot of sweat and blood to bring about the quality production of crops.

    For example, only sowing of seeds alone used to take a lot of time and an individual human resource was required to toil throughout the day. Most of the time a single task took up most of the day. However, now things have changed drastically for the better.

     

    That happened due to the use of agriculture machinery in agriculture.

     

    Farm Field Equipment

    • Perhaps the most popular or most used equipment in agriculture is the tractor: a high-powered, four-wheeled motor vehicle that typically designed with two oversized rear tires. Tractors are precious farm equipment for farmers due to their hydraulic systems, which allow them to control a number of different attachable implements for cultivation, seeding, planting, crop protection, and harvesting. 

     

    Cultivation Equipment

    • Cultivation equipment, or tools used for preparing the soil for planting, like a plow, rotavator, harrow and many more. farmers generally use plows to overturn big chunks of earth, thereby loosening soil and covering up weeds, while harrows use to fine-comb the soil surface and to eliminate any remaining lumps.

    Planting Equipment

    • Seeding or Planting equipment includes a multi-row planter, happy seeder, pneumatic planter, it uses to planting the seed on the proper distance.

    Harvesting Equipment

    • Combine Harvester, forage, mover, the ripper is used for harvesting purpose, the combine is one of the popular farm implements used for harvesting the crops it performs multiple operations like reaping, threshing, and winnowing into a single step.

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