Analysis of Soil and Crop Parameters for the Development of Power Tiller-Operated Groundnut Digger

Groundnut (Arachis hypogea L.) is a big oilseed crop and holds an important place in the Indian land economy. Odisha occupies 6th place in the important groundnut-bearing states of the country with a total result of 0.388 MT and is grown in two together Kharif and Rabi seasons. Harvesting is one of the major whole operations in nut cultivation and is automatically harvested by tractor-conducted diggers but their use is limited by way of small land assets and high capital costs and is not careful for small and marginal peasants of the state. However, the nut diggers to match accompanying power tillers are not commercially available, accordingly, efforts were fashioned to develop a sole-row groundnut mole operated by a power wheel. The study was conducted to pertain the soil and crop parameters for the mole design, which influences the harvesting of nut. The design of a power wheel-operated nut digger to harvest a alone row of groundnut requires the dossier of soil parameters (soil type, most density, circular-shaped object with pointed end index and soil moisture content) and crop parameters (plant society, plant height, pod district, pod spreading range, taproot length, taproot width, pod-vine ratio), appropriate for different nut varieties. It was raise that the majority of groundnut sorts were grown in arenicolous soils and harvested at 12-15 % soil dampness for more yield with a minimum capacity requirement. It was observed that for all types of nut varieties the plant state, plant height, pod district depth, pod spreading sweep, taproot length, taproot width and the number of pods per plant varies from 24-29/m2, 31-49.18 cm, 5.79-6.86 cm, 5.87-9.15 cm, 11.70-13.78 cm, 4.64-5.84 cm and 11-27/plant, individually.

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