A reaper is a farm implement or person that reaps (cuts and often also gathers) crops at harvest when they are ripe. Usually the crop involved is a cereal grass. The first documented reaping machines were Gallic reaper that was used in modern-day France during Roman times. The Gallic reaper involved a comb which collected the heads, with an operator knocking the grain into a box for …
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CULTIVATOR
A cultivator is any of several types of farm implement used for secondary tillage. One sense of the name refers to frames with teeth (also called shanks) that pierce the soil as they are dragged through it linearly. Another sense refers to machines that use rotary motion of disks or teeth to accomplish a similar result. The rotary tiller is a principal example. Cultivators stir and pulverize the …
ridging technologically
Ridger is a primary soil tillage machine is mounted and trailed from tractor’s hydraulic lifting unit and universal three point linkage system. Therefore transportation to the field can be easily done. Furrow opener is placed over the chassis. It has an opportunity to enter between rows as demanded width due to its adjustable moldboards. The …
TRANSPLANTER
A planter is a farm implement, usually towed behind a tractor, that sows (plants) seeds in rows throughout a field.[1] It is connected to the tractor with a drawbar or a three-point hitch. Planters lay the seeds down in precise manner along rows. Planters vary greatly in size, from 1 row to 54, with the biggest in the world being the 48-row John Deere DB120. Such larger …
walking tractor
Many small-holder farmers would love to use tractors on their farms, but the price factor holds them back.But there is there is hope. The Ministry of Agriculture through the Agriculture Development Corporation Kenya (ADC) has rolled out an affordable hand-pushed multipurpose tractor that can perform the work of three bulls (tilling job).“This walking tractor was …
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