Seed Drill Machine with the significant increase in the adoption of zero-tillage and bed planting technologies in several areas of the Indo-Gangetic Plains, zero-till seed-cum-fertilizer drill has become a very useful and important agricultural machine for the farmers. It helps them to seed a crop directly into the cultivated field just after the harvest of the previous crop with the least disturbance of the soil. It eliminates or reduces time and energy intensive conventional tillage operations reducing the cultivation costs and risk of Phalaris minor in wheat apart from improving crop yields and farmers profits.
Zero-till seed-cum-fertilizer drill comes in many models and sizes. Basically all the new models are improved versons of the Rabi seed drill (Fig. 2) used by the farmers for decades. The seed drilling is accomplished in a narrow slit created by a zero-till seed-cum-fertilizer
Major Components
Major components of the zero-till seed-cum-fertilizer drill (Fig. 3) are:
1. Frame
2. Slit/furrow openers
3.Seed and fertilizer boxes
4. Seed metering device
5. Fertilizer metering device
6. Power transmission unit
7. Depth-control side wheels
8. Hitch points
9. Iron/wooden platform or stand
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