Design and Development of Maize Reaper
Machine
International Journal of Innovations In Engineering and Science, 1 (1):
1-5 (July 2016)Abstract
In India, maize is the third most important
crop after wheat and rice. It is grown throughout the
year and also is an important raw material for many
industries like alcohol, oil, starch, beverages,
pharmaceutical, and others. But most of the land in
India is uneven and in small pieces and irregular.
Hence people still use sickle for harvesting the crop
instead of heavy machines because they are costly in
operation and complex in maintenance. They are
less popular in India, but on introducing a small,
cheap and light weight motor/engine operated
reaper the harvesting of crop can be done efficiently
and effectively. In this paper, the design and
development of maize reaper machine is developed.
By using these reaper machine we can save a large
amount of time and money on each season and can
be spent on other crops.