B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering · Semester 8 — Electives

Precision Agriculture and System Management

FMPE8.8 Farm Machinery & Power Engineering

Syllabus lecture plan

1. 01Precision agriculture- need and functional requirements
2. 02Familiarization with issues relating to natural resources
3. 03Equipment for precision agriculture including sowing and planting machines
4. 04Study of power sprayers
5. 05Study of land clearing machines
6. 06Study of laser guided land levelers
7. 07Study of straw-chopper, straw-balers, grain combines, etc
8. 08Introduction to GIS based precision agriculture and its applications
9. 09Introduction to sensors and application of sensors for data generation
10. 10Database management; System concept, system approach in farm machinery 3 management
11. 11Problems on machinery selection
12. 12Maintenance and scheduling of operations
13. 13Application of PERT and CPM in machinery system management

Part of the B.Tech. Agricultural Engineering curriculum (ICAR recommendations). Upload or find notes, previous-year papers and quick-revision reels for each lecture on theciae.