Material used:-

Material /Tools - Use

Plough - used to plough the land

sickle - used to remove weed from the field

pesticide sprinkler - used to spray pesticides

Information flow:-Farmers get information like usage of fertilizers’, pesticides, agri tools form agriculture officers of the respective places .

They start with selection of crop, prepare the soil by providing water, later they plough the land and sow the seeds in earth.after the growth of the plant they spray the pesticides.

Financial flow:- The investment and income for different crops in 1 Acre land is given below

Paddy: investment = 10,000

income = 10,000-15,000

Chilly: investment = 50,000

income = 50,000-70,000

Cotton: investment = 10,000

income = 15,000

Maize: investment = 10,000

income = 20,000

a. Community partner–Rajamallu

Gudeppad village, mulugu.

2. Project opportunity identified –

Development of new range of product linear

3. Problems:-Fertilizers spraying machine is difficult to carry while spraying in field farmer gets pain in the backbone ,

Fertilizers spray may affect the health of the farmer causing harmful diseases,

It is time consuming and painful to remove weeds from the field

4. Needs:-They need a Low budget fertilizer spraying machine which has less weight, easily portable and easy operation

Removing the weeds in easy method without bending all the day

5. Constraints/ Challenges:-To make a comfortable ,flexible and low cost machine

6.Need Priorization :

PRIMARY : To reduce the pain

SECONDARY : Easy removing of weed.

TERRITORY : Protecting farmer from disease caused by using fertilizers’ spraying machine.

7.Need statement:— To develop an agriculture product for farmers to sprinkle pesticides to the crops there by protecting the crops from diseases for long duration.

By using this product in sprinkling pesticides, the users burden like backbone pain and stress is reduced.