THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENT OF RICE TRANSPLANTING MACHINE

As in India, the plantation cost is increasing day by day. As such time the efficiency of production is decreases. One of the reason behind this is the cost of labourship, availability of labours and the expenses during the farming. So my project is basically on the modification on such processes. For that I have designed the mechanical rice-transplanter machine which will be replacement of manual plantation process. My study is based on theoretical development of mechanical rice-transplanter and the basic design on the CAD-CAM software. For the design I have taken some consideration and  designed a mechanical rice-planter. In the design padded wheel, gear drive and planting finger plays important role. As per the working of the rice-transplanter I have worked on some calculation area and find that it will be approx 95% or more than that efficient than the manual planting process for the samearea of planting. The design will be little complex due to the relative driving between the padded wheel and spur gear. Design involved the selection of  padded wheel, spur gear assembly, belt drive and base design.