Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control Machine
Weed control is one of the major problems in crop and vegetable production in Nigeria. Most of the peasant farmers use manual weeders in their cultivation, a process that is costly, labour intensive and time consuming. The process does not also give the farmer adequate returns to enable him breakev...
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Joint Coordination Centre of the World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Programme (NARP)
2021-04-01
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Weed control is one of the major problems in crop and vegetable production in Nigeria. Most of the peasant farmers use manual weeders in their cultivation, a process that is costly, labour intensive and time consuming. The process does not also give the farmer adequate returns to enable him breakeven. It is, therefore, necessary to design a weeding equipment which minimize the human effort and provide efficient work output for the peasant farmer. This study focus on designing, construction and evaluation of a hand-pushed weed control machine that would eliminate the challenges being faced by the farmer in weeding. Materials selected to suit the construction of the weeder are durable and locally available, easily replaced if damaged and at affordable cost. They include mild steel (3mm, 5mm), 30 mm circular (hollow) pipes, 10 mm diameter steel rod, and 40 cm pneumatic tyre. The developed weeding machine was evaluated in the experimental farm of IAR with impressive results. It works well in sandy loam soil of about 25.65% moisture content and requires less labour force compared to the manual hoe. It has about 84.7% weeding efficiency, 0.0129ha/hr effective
field capacity, 0.019ha/hr theoretical field capacity and 68% field efficiency. The average cost of the weeding is N21, 000:00.
Keywords: Manual weeding, hand-pushed weeder, weeding efficiency, field efficiency
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| spelling | doaj.art-5d8661395ffb47ffb0e7c193f00f5b532024-04-02T19:48:19ZengJoint Coordination Centre of the World Bank assisted National Agricultural Research Programme (NARP)Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management2659-15022659-14992021-04-0125310.4314/jasem.v25i3.14Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control MachineA. SalehM.L. Suleiman Weed control is one of the major problems in crop and vegetable production in Nigeria. Most of the peasant farmers use manual weeders in their cultivation, a process that is costly, labour intensive and time consuming. The process does not also give the farmer adequate returns to enable him breakeven. It is, therefore, necessary to design a weeding equipment which minimize the human effort and provide efficient work output for the peasant farmer. This study focus on designing, construction and evaluation of a hand-pushed weed control machine that would eliminate the challenges being faced by the farmer in weeding. Materials selected to suit the construction of the weeder are durable and locally available, easily replaced if damaged and at affordable cost. They include mild steel (3mm, 5mm), 30 mm circular (hollow) pipes, 10 mm diameter steel rod, and 40 cm pneumatic tyre. The developed weeding machine was evaluated in the experimental farm of IAR with impressive results. It works well in sandy loam soil of about 25.65% moisture content and requires less labour force compared to the manual hoe. It has about 84.7% weeding efficiency, 0.0129ha/hr effective field capacity, 0.019ha/hr theoretical field capacity and 68% field efficiency. The average cost of the weeding is N21, 000:00. Keywords: Manual weeding, hand-pushed weeder, weeding efficiency, field efficiency https://www.ajol.info/index.php/jasem/article/view/206447Manual weeding, hand-pushed weeder, weeding efficiency, field efficiency |
| spellingShingle | A. Saleh M.L. Suleiman Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control Machine Journal of Applied Sciences and Environmental Management Manual weeding, hand-pushed weeder, weeding efficiency, field efficiency |
| title | Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control Machine |
| title_full | Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control Machine |
| title_fullStr | Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control Machine |
| title_full_unstemmed | Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control Machine |
| title_short | Design, Construct and Evaluation of a Single Row Hand-Pushed Mechanical Weed Control Machine |
| title_sort | design construct and evaluation of a single row hand pushed mechanical weed control machine |
| topic | Manual weeding, hand-pushed weeder, weeding efficiency, field efficiency |
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