Technology development has facilitated agriculture to a revolutionary level. The international market for Agricultural Machinery was estimated to reach $122.9 billion by 2019. But now we can see that the growth is much larger than it was estimated. Earlier agriculture used to be looked upon as anindustry that needs sheer physical hard work but the mechanization allowed farmers to increase productivity with minimum efforts and earn more benefits.
Agricultural machinery are used in various types of farm works to make them short and easy. The use of machines in farming work started with the beginning of industrialization in the middle ages and is continued in the contemporary time. Because of the technologically advanced machines andequipments, the work of longest hours can be accomplished in just a few hours and farmers can rest and handle other farm works in spare time.
Here we have described most popular and technologically advanced agriculture equipment –
Tractor
Available in different engines and sizes tractor are highly efficient and versatile pieces of farm equipment. A farmer should certainly choose the one with the right amount of horse power he needs for his farm. A tractor also allows farmers to pull a range of attachments such as a rotary tiller, haybaler, seeder, trolley, plough, and many more.
Combine Harvester
The combine harvester also known as simply combine is a multipurpose harvester machine designed to harvest a variety of grain crops efficiently. The name is also consequently taken from its capacity of combining three different harvesting operations - reaping, threshing, and winnowing into a single procedure. The grain crops that can be harvested with a combine harvester are wheat, barley, corn, oats, rye, sorghum, soybeans, pulses, flax, sunflowers, canola etc. The straw separated from the grains is left lying on thefield that later either is chopped and spread on the field or baled for limited-feed for livestock and other uses.
Sprayers
Sprayers are used to apply pesticides, herbicides, and fertilizers on the agricultural crops in fields. Sprayers are available indifferent sizes from manual units to trailed sprayers that are used connected to a tractor.
Rotavator
It is one of the type of tillers itself and its basicfunction is soil preparation. Arotavator turns the soil upside down to provide the soil better exposure. While buying a rotary tiller a farmer should keep in mind are the soil of the field, their budget and the strength of its gearbox.
Tractor Cultivator
Known as one of the most basic farm tools cultivators are used to plough the fields. A tractor cultivator is a kind of secondary tillage equipment and is used in various sizes based on the farm-size. A farmer can decide by choosing the number of tynes the need in a cultivator.
