Farm equipment are very helpful to increase the efficiency of different farming operations and practices that needs immense hardwork by our farmers. It includes the use of hybrid seeds of a certain variety of any crop, technically advanced farm equipment and masses of energy supports in the form of fertilizers, irrigation water and pesticides. The most essentially used farm equipment in farming practices are tractors, combines, mowers, ploughs, balers, harrow, planters and sprayers.
Farming in modern times is no longer an easy job with hand tools only. Big scale production depends on huge farm machines used over thousands of hectares of land to produce more and more grains in a shorter amount of times. This efficiency improvement also means that the world has access to various food products at any time whenever it wants.
Let's discuss here top 5 modern machines that have increased the production and efficiency of farming operations dramatically across the globe.
Plough
Ploughing is the initial step of preparing the soil for harvesting and very important practice in agriculture. Growing weeds can disturb the growth of crops and that eventually can lead to the unavailability of nutrients for the fresh crops. A plough quickly and effectively breaks up the soil, tearing the weeds burying them under the surface without hurting the fresh crops.
Weeds and invasive species can choke out your fresh crop, thus it is really important to make sure that the soil is free of weeds. Various types of plough such as mb plough, disc plough are used for ploughing different types of soils and killing weeds.
Harvesting Equipment
Various types of modern harvesting equipment are used for harvesting in the season. Such as a compact potato harvester digs potato from the fields by separating soil and the roots. A combine harvester performs step by step several essential and laborious tasks at the same time inside the machine – such as cutting or reaping, threshing or separating of grains, and finally refining the grains from the chaff which is also known as winnowing.
Tractors
Tractors, not only lessens the burden of transporting the grains from one place to another for a farmer but also are used for pulling various tractor implements, such plough, rotary tillers, cultivators, mulcher, mowers, land levelers etc. Half of the work on a farm is done by a tractor.
Disc Harrow
The disc harrow is one of the essential tillage equipment that increases the production as well efficiency of a farm. Disc harrow helps in breaking up lumps of the soil easily, efficiently and faster to give it a rich finish to make a seedbed.
Land Leveler
Land levelers are used as tractor equipment to make the soil more levelled, smooth and surface obtained enabling it to create a moist environment for crops and reducing consumption of fertilizers, seeds, chemical and fuel.
