| Sanction Date: | 20.03.2025 | |||
| Project Category | SG | |||
| Year | 2024-2025 | |||
| Project Duration | 2 Years | |||
| BTA : | ID | |||
| Project Site/ State/ Districts/ Villages Covered: |
Almora , Uttarakhand |
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| Organization/ Implementation Agency: | Scientist, ICAR-Vivekananda Parvatiya Krishi Anusandhan Sansthan, Almora, Uttarakhand | |||
| Project Partners: | S.No. | Name | ||
| 1. | NA | |||
| Lead Proponent: | Dr. Shyam Nath |
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| Project Brief Description: | In the hills, agricultural land once being cultivable is now barren due to the unavailability of region-specific farm power and machinery. Animals in hills served a major part of farm power operations but their use and availability has decelerated with time. Continuous decline in the cultivable area and wild animal have threatens food security and livelihood in hills. Hence, there is need to develop innovative and sustainable farm mechanization solution to enhance land use and productivity of hill agriculture. In the hills, agriculture mechanization gap exists mainly due to the absence of farm power, bulky nature of machine, and unavailability of gender-neutral technologies. Topography-specific farm mechanization through light weight farm tools and equipment can enhance the efficiency of agriculture and reducing drudgery. This project aims at developing a Solar Power based Mechatronics Prime Mover device for the agricultural operations (for sowing, intercultural, irrigation, weeding, spraying and harvesting operations). Size, weight, gender-friendly technology and appropriate power source are the identified mechanization gap in these regions. Utilizing renewable solar energy for farm mechanization offers a potential green technology with efficient control system for multi operational units from single source. In this product, potential of solar energy can be utilized in agriculture farms. | |||
| Beneficiaries/ Stakeholders: | NA |
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| Activity Chart | ||||
| Total Grants (in Rs.) | Rs. 4,626,800/-(Rupees Forty-Six Lakh Twenty-Six Thousand Eight Hundred Only) | |||
| Project Objectives | Quantifiable Deliverables | Monitoring Indicators |
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• To develop and evaluate solar powered standard mechatronics powertrain device and attachments for different agricultural operation suitable for hills. • To generate employment though capacity building by extension and custom hiring based mechanization strategies. • To generate employment through capacity building, custom hiring center, and service center establishment. |
• Functional prototype of the solar-powered mechatronics prime mover with multiple attachments. • Improved ergonomic design demonstration of reduced labor-intensive processes. • Trained workforce and service infrastructure for mechanized farming. |
• No. of developed and field-tested prototypes. • Efficiency and performance data. • No. of trained farmers and entrepreneurs. • No. of custom hiring centers established. • No. of research papers, technical reports, and published. |
| S.No. | Name (Sanctioned) | Salary (Sanctioned) |
| 1. | 01 JRF | @ Rs. 37,000/ + 10% HRA |
| S.No. | Name of Equipment (Sanctioned) | Cost (in INR) |
| 1. | 02 Load Cells with data logger@1Lac, 02 Torque sensors with data logger@2Lac, 01CAD Software for analysing strength of device to optimize weight@1.5Lac, 01 Small CNC Machine@3.90Lac, 05 DC Motors@0.50Lac, 10 Different types of solar panel and tracing devices@1Lac, MIG/TIG Welding Machine@0.50Lac, 02Tachometer and Lux meter@0.40Lac. | 10,80,000 |
