Development of Tractor Front Mounted Harvester for Finger Millet

Finger millet crop is important minor millet, which can serve as both food and fodder. Manual harvesting of finger involves earhead stalk separately labor intensive. Hence, the study aimed to design develop a harvester for remove drudgery in achieve low cost harvesting. The machine parameters influencing millets were identified most prominent variety CO (Ra) 14 millet. A prototype was developed effect operational evaluated terms header loss at different levels rotational speed reel 30, 35 40 revolutions per minute (rpm), 35, 45 cm mounting height forward 1.6, 2.68, 3.48 km/h. performance harvest found satisfactory. Comparing best combinations parameters, minimum 1.25 cent achieved combination 30 rpm reel, 2.68 km/h speed.