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Low-tech, Low Fatigue: a Hand Seeder to Sow an Acre in a Day |
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Palle Srujana has documented the stories of hundreds of young rural entrepreneurs. Their innovations, by and for people at the grassroots, improve life at a low cost, and have empowered many young people in villages to become self-reliant. We present a few such stories from recent issues. Our thanks to Brig. P. Ganesham, President, Palle Srujana, for translating these articles. |
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" 34215 Kondalu Nayak
Village Transporter
Kondal Nayak developed a four wheel trailer as a Village transporter. It has a carrying capacity of 1,000 kg. Manoeuvrability is very high and therefore it can be pulled by a motorbike, a weeder, an auto rickshaw and also by a tractor. The trailer being open, can carry all types of materials, and can very conveniently be transported within the village. Size of the trailer is 6 x4 x3 feet.
(originally published in Palle Srujana 11(3):14-15, March-April, 2023)
34216 Gorre Ashok Hand Seeder
A simple manual seeder developed by Gorre Ashok ensures the farm labour can sow seeds effectively to the right depth, and right space as can be seen in the picture above. The labour has to walk with the seeder. By pushing it into the soil, it makes a hole for the right depth, seed is allowed to drop into the hole and when the seeder is removed the soil around the hole automatically closes the hole with seed in it.
(Mansukhbhai Jagani had developed a similar design 15 years ago and exported it to Kenya also. Such devices are needed for decentralised manufacture widely:
(Palle Srujana 11(3):15, March-April, 2023)
34217 Jyotula Jaswant
Chegodi machine, Appalam machine and Groundnut husking machine
Chegodis (ring biscuits) and appalams (papads) are traditional savoury snacks, and popular choices for mothers to make at home for their children. There is a viable market to sell them in packaged form, and could be a profitable avenue for women entrepreneurs. Currently, most chegodi sellers make and fill them into polypacks by hand. The texture
and flavour of hand-made chegodis is inconsistent, and since they are sold by weight, the number in each packet varies. These problems have been addressed by chegodi- making machines. However, they usually cost a few lakh rupees, and are inaccessible to common people who want to scale up their business.
Jyotula Jaswant has created an affordable machine which standardizes and partially automates the process. It helps make chegodis of the same size and weight, and automatically fills the same number of chegodis into each packet. One person kneads the dough, another operates the machine, and a third fries the chegodis. With only three people working, the machine helps produce over 3,000 chegodis in a day. It lessens fatigue, and needs less than one-third the number of workers required to get the same output by hand.
The appalam machine automatically kneads and rolls dough into round sheets of a uniform size. They are packed and sold in this ready-to-fry form.
Jyotula’s third machine husks groundnuts, and splits the kernels in half. Since the machine does not fragment the nuts, it has more applications, for instance, it produces bigger pieces used for chikkis, but these can also be crushed further and added to appalam dough. Two people are needed to operate it.
These three machines are affordable, improve quality of the output, reduce the tedium of labour, and are fitted with a one HP motor each to consume very little power. They help smaller entrepreneurs tap into the flourishing “Ready-to-Eat” market.
(Palle Srujana 11(4):13-15, May-June, 2023)
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Honey Bee, 34(2)15 , 2023 |
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