Tractor driven onion transplanter

Details: This machine can perform three functions at a time viz. transplanting onions, applying fertilizer and making irrigation channels. As the tractor moves forward, the seedlings are delivered manually in the delivery chutes for planting and the star wheel type metering mechanism gets the drive to release the fertilizer in the tubes. One driver and four labours are required to operate this machine, using which one hectare area can be covered in eight hours, as against 0.05 hectare area covered by five labours doing transplantation manually

Innovator: Pandharinath Sarjerao More, Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

State: Ahmednagar, Maharashtra

Funding agency: Department of Science and Technology, Govt of India

Implementing institute: National Innovation Foundation India (NIF), info.nif@nifindia.org