Development of Areca Nut Climbing and Harvesting Machine with Pesticide

Abstract

Recent days there were lots of improvement and advancement have been done in the field of agriculture, but the sad thing is the large scale farmers always earns more than the small scale farmers when comparing its ratio. The project focuses on the growth of small scale farmers as equal to the growth of the large scale farmers in the field of agriculture in growing the palm trees. The palm trees usually grow in narrow dimensions and the time taken to harvest the crop nuts will be around 3 to 4 years. Total investment is based on the harvesting and the cost and machines to harvest the crop nuts were of huge amount and the small scale farmers struggle a lot and that leads to loss. Also there is a chance of losing the quantity of crop nuts when harvested from the top of the palm tree when all the nuts will be scattered and is wasted falls down on the ground. Therefore we thought of designing a product that can be operated by the by the farmer itself a user friendly and easy to handle, also we have focused on safe landing of the crop nuts from the top of the palm tree. This product completely works based on the mechanical concepts and designed with mechanical links. It is operated manually now; in the future it will be automated. This product will decrease the cost of harvesting and increase the profit for the small scale farmers to grow their ration as that of the large scale farmers. This will create a revolution in the field of crop harvesting which benefits lots of farmers to come up from their bad time to good time.