Rice Seeding Machine

This is small machine design for small scale farmers who cannot afford heavy machineries. This is man power machine that can be use for rice plantation. Over one billion people in the world are engaged in rice cultivation, and over three and a half billion people worldwide depend on rice as a major food source. Due to the world population’s dependence on rice, it is crucial to implement efficient methods to increase rice yields as much as possible. Many countries have experimented with new technologies to obtain improved results. Thailand is the world’s second largest rice exporter. India is predominately an agricultural country with rice as one of its main food crop. It Produce about 80 million tons rice annually which is about 22% of the world rice production. We are looking to introduce new technologies that could potentially make the rice cultivation process more efficient for small-scale farmers. This new seeding machine is designed to provide a new planting option that will decrease the amount of seed used and lower production costs. Our final objective consisted of determining how appropriate the new rice seeding technology could be for use by small-scale farmers. Our findings revealed that farmers had never design of the rice seeding technology. The goal of this project was to provide recommendations of possible changes that could be made to a new rice sowing machine to better fit the needs of the farmers. Minimizing the amount of seed used in planting and reducing the costs of planting the rice are two goals of the new seeding technology. In order to reach this goal, we identified what methods farmers currently use to grow rice and determined the differences in yields and costs between traditional and new cultivation practices. We identified what actions the Rice Seed Center had already taken to introduce the new technology and determined that the farmers had no experience with the new rice sowing technology prior to our arrival. Finally, we determined the appropriateness of the new rice sowing technology for use by the small-scale farmers.