IJSRD - International Journal for Scientific Research & Development| Vol.

4, Issue 09, 2016 | ISSN (online): 2321-0613

Design and Fabrication of Sugarcane Cutting Machine for Cane-Can

Industry, Nagpur
Mohammad Zeeshan Ali1 K. I. Ahmad2
1
M.Tech. Student 2Assciate Professor
1,2
Department of Mechanical Engineering
1,2
A.C.E.T, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
Abstract— Agriculture is the most important trade of India. machine has to be semi-automatic, the operator will be
In India almost every cultivator (farmer) facing the labor responsible for feeding the machine with sugarcane sticks.
shortage problem andhigh labor wages. The sugar cane The pieces of sugarcane will be finally collected by the
harvesting is a very critical activity which involves great operator at the end of operation.
effort or workby labor for cutting the cane. The labors are
experience sustained injuries due to intense stress on the II. LITERATURE REVIEW
joints and muscles of the body. And also modern world need
A. RohitJ.Masute, S. S. Chaudhari, S. S. Khedkar, B. D.
faster rate of production of agriculture products. This
Deshmukh [1]
research paper is based on design and fabrication of
sugarcane cutting machine for Cane-can industry, this In today's competitive world there is a need for faster rate of
machine will be required to cut the sugar cane of size upto 10 production of agricultural products. Agriculture is the
ft. to a size of approx.2ft sugarcane stick should be cut in one backbone of India. In India almost all farmers facing
cycle. The machine has to be semi-automatic, the operator problems of labour shortage. Day by day labour wages are
will be responsible for feeding the machine with sugarcane increasing and in the same way demand of agriculture
sticks. The pieces of sugarcane will be finally collected by products. In many countries, sugar cane harvesting is a very
the operator at the end of operation. It reduces cost of labor labour-intensive activity in which workers usually become
as compared to manual operation. Also, consumed less time fatigued after manually cutting the cane for a few hours.
as compared to manual system and it will be safe. They need frequent pauses for rest, and they experience
Key words: Sugarcane Cutting Machine, Harvesting sustained injuries from excessive stress on the joints and
muscles of the body. And also today's world need faster rate
I. INTRODUCTION of production of agriculture products. This review paper is a
small work towards analyzing sugarcane harvester machine
Indian economy is also dependent on Farming.It is the main aspects for economical harvesting which will help to
source of income for many families. Thus, farmers are minimize the working fatigue and to reduce labour cost.
primly important for us. The Indian agriculture has facing
serious problems such as lack of agricultural labour, not B. E Meyer and L J Fenwick [2]
only during working seasons but also in normal time. The South African sugar industry harvests about 20 million
Sugarcane is the world's largest crop, Food tons of sugarcane annually. More than 90% of this tonnage
Agricultural Organization (FAO) evaluate that it was is currently being harvested manually. During 2002, the
cultivated on about 23.8 million hectares in more than 90 South African Sugar Association Experiment Station’s
countries, with a worldwide harvest of 1.69 billion tons. In Agricultural Engineering Department conducted a
our state i.e. Maharashtra Sugarcane grows in majority. comprehensive cane cutter survey throughout the South
Nearly 35 to 45 % of field is under Sugarcane only. Thus it African and Swaziland sugar industries. The primary
is important to be focused on it. objective was to identify the productivity ranges for manual
cane cutters across various harvesting systems, in both green
and burnt cane. Factors impacting on cane cutter
performance were also investigated. A small number of time
and motion studies were also conducted to identify the time
utilisation of the various cane cutter tasks. Results indicate
that cane cutter performances vary widely between cutters,
farms and regions, and average output is greatly dependent
on harvesting systems.
C. Tushar.N.Khilosia1, Prof.L.M.Rola [3]
Bamboo sticks are the major raw materials used in the
Agarbatti industry. The Agarbatti production generally
involves the strips cut from the bamboo sticks. Earlier these
processes was carried out by tribal people who make strips
and sticks by conventional methods of using knives which is
Fig. 1: Shows a manual sugar cane cutting very tedious, time-consuming and risky. After that the
The need of this project is limited to developing a hydraulic splitter machine came into existence which can
sugar cane cutting machine for Cane-Can industry, Nagpur. produce the stick within a single machine. But in that
Multiple sugarcane stick should be cut in one cycle. The machine two different dies were used so the stick could not

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be cut in a single operation. Hence to avoid this problem one V. CONCLUSION

mechanism has been suggested which could cut the stick in With successful completion of this project, the company
a single operation. Furthermore the selection procedure for Cane-can industry will be directly benefited, Design and
the pneumatic drive is also mentioned in this paper. fabrication of sugarcane cutting machine will reduce labor
D. V. Siva Prasad, Syed Altaf Hussain, V.Pandurangadu, time of manually cutting the sugarcane, ensure safety of
K.Palani Kumar [4] workers working on sugarcane cutting, reduce the cost of
labour involved in the cutting operation and it can cut
This paper describes design and analysis of Spur gear. In the
multiple sugarcane stick in one operation
present work, it is proposed to substitute the metallic gear of
sugarcane juice machine with plastic gears to reduce the
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reduce labor cost as compared to manual operation. Also,
consumedless time as compared to manual system and it
will be safe.

IV. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

In present study, we create the CAD model of semi-
automatic sugarcane cutting machine. Then analysis of
design will be performed. If required the modifications and
analysis of modified design will be performed after that
results will be discussed and design will be finalized and
fabricated.

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