Design and Development of Portable Automatic Coconut Leaves Cutter

Abstract

Coconut trees are a major source of income, food, fuel and many other useful things. Coconut branches are used to make shades, to make coverings from rain, to make decorative items. Coconut leaves are majorly used to make brooms which need delicately cleaned leaves. The branch of coconut trees is used as fuel in boilers or as firewood. To cut the leaves and branch considerable human efforts are required. Usually people use traditional Sickle-like equipment. This method is injurious and it exhausts the person. We have designed a mechanism that can be implemented to cut the leaves efficiently and in a way that bolsters the production with the help of technology. Hence motivation for the project is to reduce the human assistance required for increased efficiency of the operation and to ensure safety while operation. The project is intended to be an automated and least effort process. During this project we aspired to comprehend research papers and find a suitable optimised solution for the problem. A traditionally used method is challenged during the project to reduce human efforts and implement use of technology in the agriculture field so as to facilitate farmers with emerging technologies to enhance their production.

Country : India

1 Kaustubh D. Agashe2 Mrudula M. Deosthali3 Vibhavari Vilas Saitwal

  1. Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PVG’s COET & GKP IOM, Pune, India
  2. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PVG’s COET & GKP IOM, Pune, India
  3. Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, PVG’s COET & GKP IOM, Pune, India

IRJIET, Volume 7, Issue 4, April 2023 pp. 301-304

doi.org/10.47001/IRJIET/2023.704049

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