Agricultural Machinery

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deals with the study of application, use, and management of various agricultural machines, tools, and equipment used for production and post-production
operation

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Agricultural machinery

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is the development, manufacture and extension of appropriate agricultural tools, implements, and machinery using animal, human, mechanical, electrical, and other renewable sources of energy for agricultural production and development and post harvest operation

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Agricultural mechanization

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designed primarily for
agricultural field operation. These include agricultural tractors, self-propelled machines, implements, and their combinations

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Agricultural field equipment

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are traction machines designed
primarily to supply power to agricultural implements and
farmstead equipment. They propel itself and provide a force
to the direction of travel to enable attached soil-engaging
and other agricultural implement to perform its intended
function

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Agricultural tractors

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are designed to perform agricultural operations. These are further classified into: towed,
mounted, and semi-mounted implements.

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Agricultural implement

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are implement designed with
integral power unit to provide both mobility and power in
performing agricultural operations.

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Self propelled machine

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These are equipment other than
agricultural field equipment used in agricultural operation for
the production of food and fiber. These include livestock
equipment, waste-handling system, crop drying and milling
systems, material handling system, and others.

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Farmstead equipment

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These include plow and harrow used to prepare the

land making it ready for seeding and planting operations

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Tillage equipment

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These are equipment used to place seeds or plant parts into the prepared seedbed.

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Seeding and planting equipment

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These include cultivating, weeding, spraying, dusting, as well as irrigation equipment aimed at making sure that the crop grows to produce its potential yield

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Crop maintenance equipment

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These are equipment used

to gather and separate the produced from the panicles and make them ready for primary processing operation

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Harvesting and threshing equipment

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These are equipment used to reduce the moisture of the product to a level that it can be stored with minimum loss from spoilage

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Drying equipment

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These are equipment used to process the product ready for consumption

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Milling equipment

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These are equipment used to keep the product safe from deterioration or spoilage for prolonged period of storage

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Storage equipment

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• Machine used primarily for traction or pulling purposes
• can also deliver power for both stationary and mobile tasks.
• can pull or tow implement through traction from drive wheel or pull implement through the draft developed from the drawbar

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Agricultural tractor

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They are used as primary tillage implement constituting the initial
major soil-working operation, normally designed to reduce soil
strength, cover plant materials, and rearrange aggregates.

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Plows

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Used as secondary tillage implement designed to control weed growth and to create specific soil surface configuration before seeding

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Harrows

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Hand-operated machines used to till small sizes of land enough to
replace draft animals.

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Power-tillers

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used for pulling small plows or harrows to prepare a paddy field.

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Hand tractor

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equipment used for water-logged areas where ordinary power tiller cannot be used

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Floating-type tiller

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Machines used to open a furrow, place the seeds, and cover them
in a prepared soil.

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Seeders

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Machine used to place seedlings or plant parts in a prepared soil

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Planter

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Machines used to break liquid into droplets of effective size and
distribute them uniformly over the surface or space to be
protected.

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Sprayers

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a harvesting machine used to cut standing crops and lay them down on the field in an orderly manner in a row

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Reaper windrower

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a harvesting machine used both to cut and bind the crops and afterwards lay the bundles of stalks on the ground.

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Reaper-binder

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• Machine that combines harvesting and threshing into single operation
• It differs from combine harvester in that it permits the removal of grains directly from the heads or panicle without cutting the stalks

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Stripper Harvester

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Self-propelled machine which harvests and threshes the grains at the same time making them ready for drying and storage

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Combine harvester

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Machine that separates rice grains from panicle

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Rice thresher

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Machine used to separate seeds from cobs or pods.

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Sheller

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Machine used to reduce the moisture of the grains from a level that is in equilibrium with the atmosphere to about 14%

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Grain dryer

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Machine used to convert paddy into milled rice

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Rice mill

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Machine used to lift water at a given flow rate and head

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Pump

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Machines used to reduce the size of materials into granular or
powdered form either by cutting, shearing, impact or their
combinations.

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Size-reduction equipment

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Machine used to reduce the size of fibrous materials and shatter
the fiber through impact action of the beaters or hammers.

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Biomass shreder

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Equipment used to safely store the grains immediately after

drying without significant loss in quality

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Grain storage equipment

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Actual rate of land or crop

processed in a given time.

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Effective field capacity

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Rate of performance obtained if
a machine performs its function 100% of the time at a given
operating speed using 100% of its theoretical width

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Theoretical field capacity

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Ratio of effective field capacity to field capacity, expressed in percent

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Field efficiency