NPTEL : NOC:Farm Machinery (Agriculture)

Co-ordinators : Prof. VK Tewari


Lecture 1 - Importance of Farm Machines in the Contest of Enhance Production, Multiple Cropping, Labour Scarcity etc.

Lecture 2 - Ploughing and first opening of the soil, the design and component details

Lecture 3 - Tractor, implement and soil force consideration for tillage implement design

Lecture 4 - Tractor, implement and soil force consideration for tillage implement design

Lecture 5 - Mechanics of rotavoator or rotary tillers

Lecture 6 - Design of a tractor PTO operated rotavator

Lecture 7 - Tractor implement hitching systems

Lecture 8 - Mechanics of tractor implement hitch system and traction prediction models

Lecture 9 - Laboratory class on traction and tire testing

Lecture 10 - Combination tillage implements for efficient land preparation

Lecture 11 - LASER guided land laveller

Lecture 12 - Introduction of seeding operation

Lecture 13 - Types of seed metering devices and their operation

Lecture 14 - Types of fertilizer metering, furrow opening and soil covering devices

Lecture 15 - Equipment for seeding and planting

Lecture 16 - Equipment for precision planting

Lecture 17 - Equipment for Paddy Transplanting

Lecture 18 - Microcontroller based uniform seed rate application system

Lecture 19 - GPS based automatic Variable rate fertilizer applicator

Lecture 20 - Embedded GPS integrated Variable Rate Fertilizer Applicator

Lecture 21 - Design of a seeding equipment - PART 1

Lecture 22 - Design of a seeding equipment - PART 2

Lecture 23 - Design of a seeding equipment - PART 3

Lecture 24 - Design a tractor drawn seed drill for a 40 hp tractor - I

Lecture 25 - Design a tractor drawn seed drill for a 40 hp tractor - II

Lecture 26 - Testing of tractor operated seeding equipment

Lecture 27

Lecture 28

Lecture 29

Lecture 30

Lecture 31

Lecture 32 - Farm machines for interculture operation

Lecture 33 - Performance of weeding blades of a push-pull weeder

Lecture 34 - Advanced level machinery for inter and intra row weeding

Lecture 35 - Tractor mounted contact type microcontroller based improved variable rate herbicide applicator

Lecture 36 - Design of manually operated weeding equipment

Lecture 37 - Plant protection equipment/machinery

Lecture 38 - Selection and design of plant protection equipment/machinery

Lecture 39 - Manually operated knapsack-cum-boom sprayer

Lecture 40 - Performance evaluation of sprayer

Lecture 41 - Testing and certification of spraying equipment

Lecture 42 - Problems based on the design and selection of spraying equipment - I

Lecture 43 - Problems based on the design and selection of spraying equipment - II

Lecture 44 - Advanced level spraying equipment: Ultrasonic sensor based sprayer

Lecture 45 - Advanced level spraying equipment: Drone assisted variable rate chemical application system and electrostatic sprayer

Lecture 46 - Harvesting equipment

Lecture 47 - Machines for harvesting cereal crops, root and fruit crops

Lecture 48 - Combine Harvester

Lecture 49 - Advanced technology approach for cotton harvesting

Lecture 50 - hreshing operation and equipment

Lecture 51 - Design of threshing equipment

Lecture 52 - Performance evaluation and testing of thresher

Lecture 53 - Conservation Agriculture

Lecture 54 - Materials for construction of farm machinery

Lecture 55 - Machinery for Land Drainage, Land Reclamation and Estate Maintenance Part - I

Lecture 56 - Machinery for Land Drainage, Land Reclamation and Estate Maintenance Part - II

Lecture 57 - Machinery for Land Drainage, Land Reclamation and Estate Maintenance Part - III

Lecture 58 - Machinery Selection and Management - Part 1

Lecture 59 - Machinery Selection and Management - Part 2

Lecture 60 - Epilogue