Agricultural Equipment 

Since ancient times, people have been usingsome tools to help them to grow and harvest crops like the hoe, rake, trowel,oxen driven plough, etc. With the advent of time agricultural equipment haveseen large scale automation making farming less laborious and faster. Todaya sagricultural equipment not only facilitates to cultivate and harvest crops theyalso help farmers to prepare the soil for the next crop and to harvest theripened crops.

Farm equipment invariably includes anymechanical or electrical component that transmits or modifies energy to performa variety of tasks. Examples of some agricultural equipment include: balers,conveyors, manure spreaders, bale choppers, mowers shredders, harvesters,grinders, blowers, power washers, augers, etc. Agricultural equipment availablein the market and thus to farmers worldwide, provide ease of farming practicesinclude planting, weeding, fertilizing, and combating pests. In short one cansummarize the importance of agricultural equipment in one sentence by sayingthat while farms provide our food, the farm equipment provide the horse powerto grow our food.

The widely used Agricultural Implements orequipment today include:  

• Agricultural Paddy Reaper a Diesel operated, Ms body, 3 square meters or more cutting capacity per hour.
• Power Weeder a Tool to remove the weeds from agricultural fields, gardens and lawns. It consists of gear oil box and differs in engine oil capacity.
• Manual Paddy Weeder a It is a manual driven type tool made of ms material ranging in weights of 4 to 5 kgs. It prevents the damage to rice plants by removing weed. 

Applications of agricultural equipment/tools:

• Wetland weeding
• Farm cultivating
• Chaff cutting
• Leveling the ground
• Vegetables and soil digging 

Feeding an ever-increasing worldpopulation, and above that the demand for a more varied diet that is producedin a socially sustainable manner, is certainly not easy. But thanks to modernagricultural equipment and the ever-changing technologies around them, that haspartially helped with this task.