Empowering Women Farmers: Designing and Developing Pull Type Electric Seeder

Abstract

Women are an essential component of the agricultural system in Gujarat's tribal region. They generally convert all kinds of labor. Manual seeding requires a lot of effort and time. Accurate measurement of the space between the seeds is necessary to achieve consistent planting. The majority of manual seeders in use today lack this capacity. In order to provide a better option, a multi-crop electric seeder was developed at the College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, Godhra for women farmers in the tribal region of Gujarat. The mainframe, handle, furrow opener, seed tube, marker, metering mechanism, battery (12V), motor and speed controller, switch, and DC charger are all parts of the multi-crop seeder. The designed equipment has a payback period of 6 hectares per hectare and 53.42 hours per hour. Over a 10-year period of the seeder's lifetime, the cost-benefit ratio was found to be 14.97 for the created multi-crop seeder.