Performance evaluation of manually operated seed drill for finger millet and comparison of manually operated seed drill with broadcasting

Abstract

Finger millet is called a climate change compliant crop, owing to its capability to withstand water stress, nutrition stress and warming stress.Finger millet is one of the most important minor millet abundantly grown in Chhattisgarh.A manually operated pull type three row seed drill was evaluated for its performance in laboratory and field test.The overall dimension of the seed drill was 1.17 m 1.1 m 0.4 m.The parameter under study in laboratory test was calibration test while the field test examined the field efficiency, field capacity, draft, hill populations.The average amount of seed in twenty revolutions of drive wheel was observed 90.57g during calibration.It has a field efficiency of 68% and field capacity of 0.09 ha/h.