ABSTRACT

India is a developing country and agriculture plays a vital role in the Indian economy. Indian economy is based on an agrarian structure which is further strengthened by tertiary sector. In India agriculture is the main occupation and 60-75% of people are engaged in agriculture. After independence urbanization process took pace in India. Although there is lots of development done in Industrial and IT sector but the agriculture sector is not up to that mark. The agricultural sector can be developed by applying various technologies which can be useful for the day to day life of the farmers. The designs of the basic farming machineries are not changed from past few years due to the lack of the interest of the educated class people towards agriculture sector. The project discussed in this report Manually Operated Harvesting Machine aims in providing assistance to the farmers in harvesting of crops. The mechanism uses the man force rather than using the electricity or the petroleum products. This project deals with development of the low cost mechanism for harvesting of different crops. Manually operated harvesting machine consists of primary cutter and the thresher blade .The primary cutter pulls the crop inside the mechanism and the thresher blade removes the grains and the grains are collected at the bottom through Hooper and the husk is removed by the hand from the mechanism. The main objective of the project is to build some broad idea about how development of the Manually operated harvesting machine is beneficial for rural area... If we concentrate on the development of agricultural sector our economy can increase by significant amount. Keywords: - agriculture, technology, agrarian sector. Contact:Vindhyavesh Tripathi(vatripathi@rediffmail.com)