Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia

Master of Science in Product Design Engineering

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Main Author: Mohd Syedi Imran, Mohd Dawi
Other Authors: Muhamad, Saifuldin, Dr.
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) 2015
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spelling my.unimap-781992023-03-23T03:24:14Z Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia Mohd Syedi Imran, Mohd Dawi Muhamad, Saifuldin, Dr. Bearings (Machinery) Transplanting machines Rice -- Planting -- Malaysia Transplanting (Plant culture) Integrated transplanter System of Rice Intensifications (SRI) Master of Science in Product Design Engineering System of rice intensifications (SRI) was practiced by community in Lembah Organik Lentang, Kampung Lentang since 2010. Throughout the years, the paddy plots began to grow in number. Since most of the SRI practices needed to be done manually especially planting the seedlings and using conventional tools to kill weeds and loaming the soil, the demand of machinery was inevitable. This is due to time consumed and numbers of manpower needed to carry out the task. For example, weeding process need to be done 4 times for one season. A new chassis that is able to support mechanical weeder and transplanter for SRI was developed. This project was designed to support SRI practices among Malaysian farmers. Product design specifications were gained from rice farmers situated at Kampung Lentang, Belantek, Kedah. Several concepts were generated and the best was choosen for further development and analysis. New chasiss was developed to replace the current agriculture tractor. The chassis was fit with small petrol engine and one main wheel. It was designed to pull SRI weeder and transplanter mechanism. The weeder mechanism was designed to loam three rows at once and able to be use for weeding process up to 40 days of age. Finite element analysis software was used to identify potential failures and subsequent rectification of the problem at the design stage. Some calculation was done to determine force and torque that may act on design. Steel was chosen as material to reduce fabrication cost. Stainless steel and aluminum were also initially considered as suitable material for the design but was not chosen due to the cost is high. For the rice transplanter, the transplanting mechanism uses linkage to drop rice seedlings on top of the soil. This fits the SRI practices for transplanting the young seedling. It is not just able to plant one seedling at one location but also plant the seedlings without removing it from nursery soil, thus, eliminate possibilities to injure the seedlings. Motion analysis was done to analyze the linkage movement. Finite element analysis also was done to determine maximum stress for each linkage part. Two of the designed products were built into prototype which are SRI Chassis and SRI Weeder and tested in actual working environment at paddy field. The field trial shows SRI Weeder was able to reduce manpower by 67%, working time by 42% and save 60% of overall operating cost 2015 2023-03-23T03:22:52Z 2023-03-23T03:22:52Z Thesis http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/78199 en Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) School of Manufacturing Engineering
institution Universiti Malaysia Perlis
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country Malaysia
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language English
topic Bearings (Machinery)
Transplanting machines
Rice -- Planting -- Malaysia
Transplanting (Plant culture)
Integrated transplanter
System of Rice Intensifications (SRI)
spellingShingle Bearings (Machinery)
Transplanting machines
Rice -- Planting -- Malaysia
Transplanting (Plant culture)
Integrated transplanter
System of Rice Intensifications (SRI)
Mohd Syedi Imran, Mohd Dawi
Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia
description Master of Science in Product Design Engineering
author2 Muhamad, Saifuldin, Dr.
author_facet Muhamad, Saifuldin, Dr.
Mohd Syedi Imran, Mohd Dawi
format Thesis
author Mohd Syedi Imran, Mohd Dawi
author_sort Mohd Syedi Imran, Mohd Dawi
title Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia
title_short Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia
title_full Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia
title_fullStr Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (SRI) cultivation in Malaysia
title_sort design and development of integrated transplanter and weedermmachine for system of rice intesification (sri) cultivation in malaysia
publisher Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)
publishDate 2015
url http://dspace.unimap.edu.my:80/xmlui/handle/123456789/78199
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