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Technology developed: Sugar Cane Harvester (TP19768721562)
Category: Product(Hardware/Material/Software)
Details of Inventor(s):
Inventor Institution/Organization/Company Department Designation
J E Diwakar IISc Bangalore CPDM Principal Research Scientist
Raghu Menon Design Innovation Centre at IISc Entrepreneur in Residence
Technical Application Area: Agricultural
If 'Other', please specify:
Please give more details of new technical application area:
Organization(s):
Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru
Affiliated Ministry: Ministry of Education
Type of technology development: Indigenous
Does the technology help in replacing any import items currently
procured from outside India?
Does the technology have export potential? 1
Category of Technology developed: Immediate Deployment
Stage of Development: Field Test
Please describe in detail including the TRL Level:
TRL 5

    Abstract:

Applications: A device to accelerate the most time consuming and laborious phase of the sugarcane harvesting process thereby accelerating the harvest time and reducing hard labour and making the process more comfortable to the farm workers involved in the harvesting.
Advantages: Sugarcane harvesting is an extremely labour intensive process. The work is carried out by gangs of workers who move from one field to another during the harvest season. Labour of this kind is increasingly in short supply and is leading to harvest losses. A sugarcane harvest tractor implement is developed in this project brings down the labour requirement during the harvest process. The device consists of an implement that is attached to the back of the tractor and is driven from the tractor power take off. The implement has a cutter mechanism to the right of the tractor that cuts the cane at the required height. The cut cane falls on the conveyor belt is transferred and dropped on other side of the tractor. The key innovation that the product brings is in this last step reducing more than 50 percent of the labour involved in harvesting. Also, the tractor does not have to wait for manual removal of the cut cane before cutting the next line.

    Technology Inputs:

Imported Equipment/Spare Parts:
Equipment/Spare Parts Year ITC-HS Code
NA
Indigenous Equipment/Spare Parts:
Equipment/Spare Parts Year ITC-HS Code
NA
Imported Raw Materials:
Raw Materials Year ITC-HS Code
NA
Indigenous Raw Materials:
Raw Materials Year ITC-HS Code
NA
Existing R&D Facilities used:
Facilities Year ITC-HS Code
NA

   Patents & Publications:

Patents:
Filed Patents (No.) Granted Patents (No.) Year
0 0 NA
Publications:
Submitted (No.) Published (No.) Year
0 0 NA

    Commercialization Potential:

Who are the Potential Licensees?
What commercially available products address
the same problem?
Company Product Problem Addressed
Would you like to develop this invention further with
corporate research support?
Yes
Would you be interested in participating in cluster based
programs for commercialization research or business
planning for your invention?
Yes
      Submitted by: B Gurumoorthy Date of Submission: 7-8-2020



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