Low draught subsoil tillage facilities

Draught Animal Power

Subsoil Water

In March, last, Drs. Cunningham and Lewis put ia motion experiments to test the value of Professor Pettenkofer's theory of the propagation of cholera, in the neighbourhood of Calcutta, by daily measurements of the level of subsoil water: they a^s0 caused similar experiments to be undertaken in Oudh. The measurements are now ordered by the Government of India to be carried out in every military ...

Draught animals and welfare.

In fifty developing countries, which contain half of the total human population of the world, there is a heavy dependence on draught animals as an energy source. These animals are used for agriculture operations in 52% of cultivated areas of the world, as well as for hauling 25 million carts. This situation is likely to continue for at least another fifty years. The work performed annually by t...

Soil Compaction and Soil Tillage – Studies in Agricultural Soil Mechanics

Keller, T. 2004. Soil Compaction and Soil Tillage Studies in Agricultural Soil Mechanics Doctoral dissertation. ISSN 1401-6249, ISBN 91-576-6769-1 This thesis deals with various aspects of soil compaction due to agricultural field traffic, the draught force requirement of tillage implements and soil structures produced by tillage. Several field experiments were carried out to study the mechanic...

Performance Evaluation of Draught Animal Power Cultivator

Prefix 10.18034 This performance evaluation was conducted to pave the way for making use of Draught Animal Power Cultivator and cosequently possibilities of adaptation in our local condition between 2010 and 2011 in the Jimma zone two districts of southwestern Ethiopia on the farmers’ field to evaluate energy requirement. To improve weed management at the small holder farmers level, animal-draw...