SOLAR POWERED SEED
SOWING MACHINE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the Study
Agricultural field involves the effective production of food, feed, fiber, and other goods for
humans and animals. Also, agriculture includes operations like production of cut flowers,
timber, fertilizers, animal hides, leather, and industrial chemicals. Heavy material handling is
required in the farming operations .
The Philippines is still primarily an agricultural country despite the plan to make it an
industrialized economy by 2000. Most citizens still live in rural areas and support themselves
through agriculture. The country's agriculture sector is made up of 4 sub-sectors: farming,
fisheries, livestock, and forestry (the latter 2 sectors are very small), which together employ
39.8 percent of the labor force and contribute 20 percent of GDP.
So, it’s a time to automate the sector to overcome this problem. The country's main agricultural
crops are rice, corn, coconut, sugarcane, bananas, pineapple, coffee, mangoes, tobacco, and
abaca (a banana-like plant). Secondary crops include peanut, cassava, camote (a type of
rootcrop), garlic, onion, cabbage, eggplant, calamansi (a variety of lemon), rubber, and cotton.
Since we have lack of manpower in our country, it is very difficult to do digging and sowing
operation on time, Automation saves a lot of manual work and speed up the cultivation activity.
The energy required for this robotic machine is less as compared with other machines like
tractors or any agriculture instrument, also this energy is generated from the solar energy which
is found abundantly in nature. Pollution is also a big problem which is eliminated by using solar
plate.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Seed sowing machine is a device which helps in the
sowing of seeds in a desired position hence
assisting the farmers in saving time and money. The
basic objective of sowing operation is to put the
seed in rows at desired depth and seed to seed
spacing, cover the seeds with soil and provide
proper compaction over the seed.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Community – reduce the pollution that other machineries
can give.
Farmers - to reduce the efforts and labour cost in farming.
ISPSC –
Future Researcher -
REVIEW OF LITERATURE
The seed sowing machine is a key component of agriculture field. The
performance of seed sowing device has a remarkable influence on the
cost and yield of agriculture products.
D. Ramesh and H .P. Girishkumar discussed the information about the
various types of innovations done in seed sowing machine available for
plantation. The seed sowing machine is a key component of agriculture
field.
Solar energy plays an important role in drying agriculture products and
for irrigation purpose for pumping the well water in remote villages
without electricity.
OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
Objective of the project can be stated as
1. Investigation of various types of seed sowing
machine
2. Development of solar powered seed sowing
machine.
3. Testing of development of solar powered seed
sowing machine in actual agricultural farm.
SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF THE STUDY
Seed sowing machine is a device which helps in the sowing of
seeds in a desired position hence assisting the farmers in
saving time and money. So considering these points related to
seed sowing an attempt is made to design and fabricate such
equipment which will able to perform the operations more
efficiently and also will results in low cost. Decrease the
operational cost by using new mechanism.
