VISVESWARAYA TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY

BELAGAVI - 590014, KARNATAKA, INDIA

Project Synopsis
on

“DESIGN AND FABRICATION OF GROUNDNUT HARVESTING”

By

1. AMITH N G 4JD15ME010
2. ADARSH C 4JD14ME005
3. HARSHA K V 4JD14ME037
4. RAGHAVENDRA K N 4JD16ME459

Under the Guidance

Of
Mr. BASAVARAJ M H, B.E, M.tech
Assistant Professor

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Jain Institute of Technology
DAVANGERE-577 003
2019-20
Design And Fabrication Of Groundnut Harvesting 2019-20

ABSTRACT
In India, most of land use for the agricultural purpose which produces semi-finished product
or goods. Around 65% of people depend on agriculture as the main occupation. Groundnut is
also one of the agricultural semi-finished goods. Among the many fast-growing cash crops,
small farmers have always looked after groundnut as the main crop to cultivate, but the major
problem in growing the groundnut crop is harvesting and threshing .Digging or pulling of
groundnuts from the soul is a labourers and time consuming process . One of the solutions for
increasing the profit and productivity is to mechanize both harvesting and threshing
operations in groundnut cultivation. For mechanizing these operations, tractor operated
groundnut harvesters, and ground threshers have been developed. Hence a machine similar to
the rice/wheat combine is the present need of the farmers through which harvesting and
threshing of groundnut crop could be taken up simultaneously. Sensing the success of a
combine harvester and thresher for rice/wheat, we have decided to develop and fabricate a
combine harvester and thresher machine for the cultivation of groundnut.

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CONTENTS
Abstract
1.Introduction 4
2. Literature review 5
3.Objectives 6
4.Cost of estimation 7
References

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1.INTRODUCTION
Harvesting and threshing of groundnut are the most important and labour intensive operations
in groundnut cultivation. Present practice of manual harvesting and threshing consumes huge
amount of labour to the magnitude of 84 man-h ha-. During peak seasons, due to non-
availability of labour in time, delay in harvesting and threshing resulted in heavy loss to the
farmer. In addition, the migration of agricultural labour force from the rural areas aggravated
the problems to the farmers. One of the solution for increasing the profit and productivity
is to mechanize both harvesting and threshing operations in groundnut cultivation. For
mechanizing these operations, power operated groundnut harvesters, and ground threshers
have been developed. Even though the harvesters and threshers have been. Developed, their
adoption level is very low due to varying power requirements and individual operation leads
to the requirement of separate machine. Hence a machine similar to the rice/wheat combine is
the present need of the farmers through which harvesting and threshing of groundnut crop
could be taken up simultaneously. Sensing the success of rice/wheat combine, the
development of a tractor operated groundnut combine was contemplated.
Harvesting and threshing of groundnut are the most important operations in
groundnut cultivation. During peak seasons, due to the non-availability of labour in time,
delay in harvesting and threshing results in heavy loss to the farmer. For alleviating the
labour problems during peak seasons and for accomplishing the timeliness of operation an
attempt was made to develop a groundnut combine harvester. As the combine harvester has
to perform the dual operations viz., harvesting and threshing, the groundnut harvesting
mechanism, conveyors and threshing mechanism have to be mounted integrally to carry out
harvesting and threshing simultaneously.

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2.OBJECTIVES

 Design and fabrication of self propelled ground nut harvesting machine.

 This machine can be used to harvest root crops other than groundnut.
 The drudgery of field work will be reduced.
 To overcome the labour shortage problem for small and medium land owned former.

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3. LITERATURE REVIEW

I. Santosh Mangave and Bhagyesh Deshmukh designed the portable groundnut sheller
machine. They also fabricated it. The fabricated machine is manually operated.
Sheller machine is used to shell only dry pods and it can be used as a groundnut
Sheller machine for domestic application.
II. Ashok. S. Andhale et.al designed and developed a groundnut separator machine
which runs with a robotic arm. The main purpose of the robotic arm is to pluck the
ground nut from the plant and put into the rotor which has blades. With this the
human effort is reduced and also efficiency is increased as it is fully automatic.
III. Kulbhushan M. Shejole et.al designed and fabricated the pedal operated groundnut
crusher. It is a manual process where the groundnuts are removed from shell. The
pedal is used for the movement of the crusher. There will be no energy consumption
and the cost of production is less. It has less maintenance cost.
IV. Ashish S. Raghtateet.al designed and fabricated a groundnut sheller machine. It is
very cheap and five experiments were performed with peanuts. Since this machine is
made for small businessman or for farmers, therefore the work carried out by this
machine is less. The decocting process of groundnut by this machine is more
economical and faster than manual process or any other processes. “GROUNDNUT
SHELLER MACHINE” will save the tremendous time, energy manpower and save
financial input of the project, reducing the cost and time considerably which is the
backbone of the present world economy.
V. Tushar Walke et.al designed and fabricated the groundnut machine which is
electrically operated. The working of the machine is power supplied to motor it
rotates the roller. Groundnuts are supplied in crushing chamber through hopper and
they get crushed between Semicircular net and the roller. Thus, the ground nuts are
removed from the shell.
VI. Ikechukwu Celestine Ugwuoke designed an electrically powered groundnut shelling
machine. The machine was fabricated using materials that were sourced locally. It can
be used for both domestic and industrial purposes. The advantage to be derived from
the use of this machine far outweighs its shortcomings. The test result showed that the
machine can shell a total of 400kg of groundnut in an hour.

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4.COST ESTIMATION

Sl. No. COMPONENTS AMOUNT

1 One cylinder internal 5000

combustion engine
2 Power transmission differential 2000
system
3 Steel angle bars 1500

4 Mild steel sheets 1500

5 Bearings 500

6 Sprockets 2000

7 Spur gears 1000

8 Steel chains 1500

9 Bolts, nuts and screws 500

TOTAL AMOUNT 15500

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REFERENCES
1) Adamčuk V., “THE EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH OF COMBINE HARVESTERS”,
Volume 02, issue no 62, April 2017, pp.106–112.

2) Arunkumar S., “DESIGN FABRICATION AND PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF

GROUNDNUT THRESHER” Volume: 04, Issue: 02, Feb -2017,pp.2395-0072.

3) Andhale Ashok. S., “DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF GROUNDNUT POD

SEPARATING MACHINE”, Vole 02, Issue 04, April 2017, pp. 38-40.

4) Ezekiel A.M., “PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A TRACTOR MOUNTED

GROUNDNUTS HARVESTER” Volume 06, Issue 09, June 2015, pp. 2222-2871.

5) Kharat Aniket, “GROUNDNUT POD REMOVING AND SEPARATING MACHINE”,

Volume 04,Issue 06, April 2016,pp.2321-8134.

Signature of Signature of Signature of

guide coordinator HOD
(Basavaraj M H) (Kallesh S S) (Dr. Rajaneesh N M)

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