Duck Foot Cultivator

Farmers go for single pass of duck foot cultivator for loosening of garlic bulbs from soil and bulbs are collected manually. A tractor operated garlic harvester cum windrower was developed at MPUAT, Udaipur for harvesting of garlic. The machine consists of a blade with triangular point knives mounted over a MS flat for its use in heavy soil for smaller size soil clods and less draft requirement. The machine has chain type separating mechanism made of MS bars of 12 mm at spacing of 38 mm along with horizontal vibrating forks of 250 mm length at spacing of 200 mm for good separation of soil from clods. The windrower unit is made of MS bars at spacing of 25 mm and mounted at 90 degree to conveyor direction in two unequal halves. The power is given by tractor pto to gearbox with a ratio of 1:1. The oscillating vibrating fork is also given power from gearbox with crank pinion arrangement. The effective field capacity of machine is 0.26 hah. The digging losses range 2-3 bulbssq.m.