DEVELOPMENT OF PROTOTYPE MODEL OF AUTOMATIC SOWING MACHINE

The conventional sowing machines used by farmers in the fields to sow the crops are operated either by manual or by using animals like bullocks, etc. To help them by avoiding the use of animal an automated solar powered sowing machines has been proposed. The present working model related to sowing machine comprises of a seed distributor as explained in this project work. The description is focused on design and development activities. The machine designed here performs important function of calculating the distance in centimetres according to the data entered in to the microcontroller through keyboard, the data is nothing but where the seed has to be planted horizontally in a row. After planting all the seeds in one particular row, the seed planting mechanism comes back to its original place and again according to the data already generated previously, the vehicle moves further up to a certain specific distance to plant the seeds in another row