Low Cost Sugarcane Bud Chipper

Abstract

Sugarcane is a crop of highest importance especially in a country like India where over 45 million people
are practicing it and a majority of them are small scale farmers. To facilitate sugarcane cultivation highly sophisticated
machines have been developed but however these machines cannot be afforded by small scale farmers. Hence it is
required to develop a machine that can yield better results, provide high profits but still costs low on price and is simple
in construction. Also in conventional method of sugarcane cultivation, the sugarcane is cut into pieces and is buried.
However, only the bud alone is required enough for cultivating sugarcane. Our machine design facilitates the cutting of
bud alone from the sugarcane and saves time compared to that of manual and other cutting processes. Our machine
makes use of combined operation of a motor connected to a rotating circular disc which is further connected to a shaft
which facilitates the reciprocating motion of a perpendicular cutter over the sugarcane, thus facilitating smooth cutting
of bud from sugarcane. This design aims at simplifying the bud removal process by making use of the above mentioned
machine which requires minimum human labour, less capital investment and saves time thus proving to be a profitable
investment for every farmer.