• Ruchita Rajendra Mohite
• Er. N. A. Shirsat
• Dr. S. V. Pathak
• Dr. P. U. Shahare
• Dr. V. A. Rajemahadik

Indian majority of population depends on agriculture for their livelihood and India is second highest rice producing country in the world. Weeds are the major thread in production of rice. It’s very difficult task to remove weeds manually as well as using manually operated cono weeder, it is time consuming operation. It required more labour and energy. To overcome the problem reciprocating type power operated cono weeder was developed. The developed reciprocating type power operated cono weeder consist of main frame, engine, gear box, roller, crank shaft, reciprocating linkage, pulley, chain drive, float and handle. The average actual field capacity and field efficiency were found to be 0.0193 ha/h to 0.0235 ha/h and 66.43 % to 81.03 %respectively. Weeding efficiency was found to be 87.45 %. The average plant damage was 1.28 %. The average fuel consumption was found to be 0.692 l/h.

Cono weeder, weeding , fuel, rice

"Performance Evaluation of Reciprocating type power operated cono weeder", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no.j680-j692, March-2024, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403988.pdf

"Performance Evaluation of Reciprocating type power operated cono weeder", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.11, Issue 3, page no. ppj680-j692, March-2024, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2403988.pdf