About the innovator Innovator Name Address

Shri Ranjit Mirig At Po Gadamunda, Via : Remad Block: Dhankauda, Dist: Sambalpur, Orissa -768004 Male, 60 years (Born in 1952) 5th standard

Sex and age Educational status Problem solved

Most farmers in the area grow paddy during the monsoon season. Paddy seedlings need to be planted on time. Any delay adversely affects production, with a direct impact on farmers livelihood. To finish on time, the innovator was also dependent on hired labour. However, according to him, most workers were controlled by the local landlord who prevented them from working for others. As a way out of this problem, he started developing a paddy transplanter to do this work. model was made in 1986. over 22 years later. The first It had many problems when tried in the field.

Undeterred, he kept modifying it until a successful version was developed in 2008, The machine was evaluated at IIT Kharagpur last year by Professor E. V. Thomas who suggested some improvements to reduce the number of adjustments required during operation and for better transportability. Summary of innovation (manual paddy transplanter) The manual paddy transplanter requires persons for its operation. One person is needed to pull the machine while to soil rows another for cranking the handle in order provide drive to seedlings trays and fingers which places the seedling in the bed. The machine can transplant five while maintaining row to row spacing of about 18 cm and plant to plant spacing of about 15 cm. When tested at IIT Kharagpur, it was found consuming less than one-seventh of the time required for manual plantation and double the time needed by a self propelled machine to cover the same area. two

It has been tested at IIT Kharagpur. It was observed that while using the machine at forward speed of 0.6 km per hour, average number of seedlings per hill were 3.44; missing hills were less than five percent; floating hills were less than five percent; angle of stand from ground level was 60 to 70 degrees; and damaged seedlings were less than five percent. It has a planting cycle of 1.02 seconds and consumes less than one-seventh the time compared to planting manually and double the time taken by a self-propelled machine in covering the same area. The technology has won an State Award in the 7th National Bieenial Award Function of National Innovation Foundation India held on 7th March 2013.