Smart Turmeric Harvester

Abstract

Turmeric is a very important spice in India, which produces nearly the world’s crop and uses 80% of it. Harvesting is the process of gathering ripened crops from the field. The general practice of harvesting is to dig out the rhizome manually with the help of hand tools. This type of harvesting causes damage to rhizomes. It is a difficult task for the farmers to get the required labor force during the harvesting season. Delay in the harvesting process results loss in the yield and also the quality of rhizomes is affected adversely. So, it is necessitate the need to develop a suitable mechanical harvester for turmeric, which helps farmer to harvest turmeric with minimum losses within a specific time by reducing the human effort as compared to manual effort. This machine consists of digging blade, wheel, motor and blade driving unit. The machine starts moving as soon as the device is powered up. This harvesting technique leads to the development of mini tractor in order to reduce the efforts of human beings and also it increases the digging efficiency.