AG31001: Agricultural Machinery
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| Course name | Agricultural Machinery | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Offered by | Agricultural & Food Engineering | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| L-T-P | 3-0-0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Semester | Autumn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Syllabus
Syllabus mentioned in ERP
Farm machines: Machines and tools for crop production and processing. Machines for tillage, sowing, fertilizer application, interculture, plant protection, harvesting and threshing. Equipment design: Principles of operation and design of simple farm equipments and tools. Farm operations: Hitching of implements. Field efficiency. Performance testing. Cost of use of machines. New techniques: Application of computer vision and GIS in farm equipments.
Concepts taught in class
Student Opinion
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Classroom resources
Additional Resources
There are two books available in this subject at undergraduate level
- Principles of Farm Machinery by R.A.Kepner
- Farm Machinery and Equipmen by Harris Pearson Smith
The first one can be used as a textbook for understanding the concepts with ease while the later one is more complex and generally used better as an extra reference.
Time Table
| Day | 8:00-8:55 am | 9:00-9:55 am | 10:00-10:55 am | 11:00-11:55 am | 12:00-12:55 pm | 2:00-2:55 pm | 3:00-3:55 pm | 4:00-4:55 pm | 5:00-5:55 pm | |
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| Monday | NR414 | |||||||||
| Tuesday | NR414 | NR414 | ||||||||
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| Thursday | NR414 | |||||||||
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