Agricultural Machinery Flashcards
deals with the study of application, use, and management of various agricultural machines, tools, and equipment used for production and post-production
operation
Agricultural machinery
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
Agricultural mechanization
designed primarily for
agricultural field operation. These include agricultural tractors, self-propelled machines, implements, and their combinations
Agricultural field equipment
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
Agricultural tractors
are designed to perform agricultural operations. These are further classified into: towed,
mounted, and semi-mounted implements.
Agricultural implement
are implement designed with
integral power unit to provide both mobility and power in
performing agricultural operations.
Self propelled machine
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.
Farmstead equipment
These include plow and harrow used to prepare the
land making it ready for seeding and planting operations
Tillage equipment
These are equipment used to place seeds or plant parts into the prepared seedbed.
Seeding and planting equipment
These include cultivating, weeding, spraying, dusting, as well as irrigation equipment aimed at making sure that the crop grows to produce its potential yield
Crop maintenance equipment
These are equipment used
to gather and separate the produced from the panicles and make them ready for primary processing operation
Harvesting and threshing equipment
These are equipment used to reduce the moisture of the product to a level that it can be stored with minimum loss from spoilage
Drying equipment
These are equipment used to process the product ready for consumption
Milling equipment
These are equipment used to keep the product safe from deterioration or spoilage for prolonged period of storage
Storage equipment
- 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
Agricultural tractor
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.
Plows
Used as secondary tillage implement designed to control weed growth and to create specific soil surface configuration before seeding
Harrows
Hand-operated machines used to till small sizes of land enough to
replace draft animals.
Power-tillers
used for pulling small plows or harrows to prepare a paddy field.
Hand tractor
equipment used for water-logged areas where ordinary power tiller cannot be used
Floating-type tiller
Machines used to open a furrow, place the seeds, and cover them
in a prepared soil.
Seeders
Machine used to place seedlings or plant parts in a prepared soil
Planter
Machines used to break liquid into droplets of effective size and
distribute them uniformly over the surface or space to be
protected.
Sprayers
a harvesting machine used to cut standing crops and lay them down on the field in an orderly manner in a row
Reaper windrower
a harvesting machine used both to cut and bind the crops and afterwards lay the bundles of stalks on the ground.
Reaper-binder
- 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
Stripper Harvester
Self-propelled machine which harvests and threshes the grains at the same time making them ready for drying and storage
Combine harvester
Machine that separates rice grains from panicle
Rice thresher
Machine used to separate seeds from cobs or pods.
Sheller
Machine used to reduce the moisture of the grains from a level that is in equilibrium with the atmosphere to about 14%
Grain dryer
Machine used to convert paddy into milled rice
Rice mill
Machine used to lift water at a given flow rate and head
Pump
Machines used to reduce the size of materials into granular or
powdered form either by cutting, shearing, impact or their
combinations.
Size-reduction equipment
Machine used to reduce the size of fibrous materials and shatter
the fiber through impact action of the beaters or hammers.
Biomass shreder
Equipment used to safely store the grains immediately after
drying without significant loss in quality
Grain storage equipment
Actual rate of land or crop
processed in a given time.
Effective field capacity
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
Theoretical field capacity
Ratio of effective field capacity to field capacity, expressed in percent
Field efficiency
