IIT Kharagpur crop production technology syllabus
Agricultural Machinery
3 – 0 – 0 : 3 Credits Prerequsites: None
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.