Design and Development of Sugar Cane Lifter Mechanism

This research paper deals with design and development of small scale sugarcane lifting machine to reduce farmer’s effort and to increase production of agricultural products of sugarcane at the lower cost which can be affordable to Indian farmers or a group of farmers. In India, farmers are facing problems of labour shortage. Therefore, there is a need of mechanization in the Indian agricultural sector as the agriculture sector is still dependent on labour & hence it is labour intensive. The need for mechanization is increased by the scarcity of workers on account of urbanization and the consequent rise in labour costs. Also, speed is the major factor in the faster rate of production which helps to improve the quality of agriculture products like sugarcane. Sugarcane lifting or loading by a machine has a more capacity to lift the sugarcane faster compared to the manual one. Hence, need of using sugarcane lifter in India is necessary for faster rate of production of sugarcane products as well as harvesters take less time to cut the cane and cuts cane in smaller parts so that it becomes easy to transport with larger amount of quantity in one trolley.