Practice Name:

Tractor-drawn puddler

Details
Category	Farm Implements
Crop
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Scout	HBN
Ingredients	Puddler, iron blade and tractor.
Details of Innovation	Sri. Ganesh has designed tractor drawn puddler for levelling the wetland. The puddler is mounted with the cultivator links of the tractor. This tractor mounted puddling operations is carried out during the las ploughing. The puddler has 11 x 2 frame with thin blades. During the puddling operation the thin blades gets overloaded with mud and tilted or broken. To avoid this, the innovator aimed to split long puddler in 2 parts. Advantages By using this puddler the cost is saved ; bullock drawn operation requires Rs.450 /- per acre where as tractor drawn requires only Rs.150 /- only.

Innovator / Knowledge Provider	Ganesh N
City / District	Nagapattinam
KVK District	ICAR KVK, Sikkal, Nagapattinam district -614714
Address	Nagappattinam ,Tamil Nadu
Languages Spoken	Tamil
Vocation	Farming
State	Tamil Nadu
PIN Code	610207

PAS_1	"Evaluation of tractor-drawn puddlers and puddling operations [India] [1985]."https://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=PH8611418
PAS_2	"BLADE HARROW."https://farmer.gov.in/dacdivision/Machinery1/chap1b.pdf
Agro Ecological Zone	Eastern Coastal Plain, Hot Subhumid To Se (18.2),East Coast Plains And Hills Region (XI),Cauvery Delta zone (TN-4)
Other Community Practices
Practice ID	TAM0010000000035
Reference	HBN database
Annotation ID	GIAN/GAVL/1165
Reference	HBN database
Scout	HBN