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Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy. India is highly dependent on agriculture as a huge amount of landis used for it. There is no doubt that agriculture plays a crucial role in the overall growth of country and so it is necessary toensure its development. In India about 70% of the total population depends on the agriculture and is one of the sources oflivelihood for the people especially in the rural areas. Agriculture plays important part of almost every economy in theworld, today some developing nations depends on agriculture for over 50% of their annual revenue. So there is a need in thedevelopment in agricultural practices, as soil is considered as the major effecting part in the agriculture to maintain thequality of soil and to make it suitable for farming cultivators tines are used before sowing of seeds. Cultivators stir andpulverize the soil, before planting to aerate the soil and prepare a smooth, loose bed or after the crop has begun growing tokill weeds, cultivators are designed to disturb the soil in careful patterns, sparing the crop plants but disrupting the weeds.The objective of this paper is to explain about the cultivator tines, its role in the agriculture and about its history, types andadvantages.

Manish Kumar Sahu, Shubham Yadav, Lokesh Singh, “Review on Cultivator Tines”, International Journal of Advance Engineering and Research Development (IJAERD), Vol. 4, Issue 15, pp. -, January 2017.