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Tillage Equipment

Tilling or managing soil requires many tough jobs from digging up the weeds to providing a perfect structure to the soil for planting. Here we have mentioned the most used tillage equipment in agricultural practices.

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Tillage Equipment

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  1. Tillage Equipment

  2. Tillage is the initial process in agricultural practices to prepare the soil for planting. Preparing or tilling the soil by breaking it up to make seedbed or rows is called tillage and is performed using various tillage equipment. Few of these are mentions here-

  3. PloughsPloughs are the most basic tillage equipment used to break, turn and mix the soil and works efficiently even in rocky and rooted areas. Various models used worldwide as per their functions are – mould-board plough, reversible mould-board plough, disc plough etc.

  4. Rotary Tillers or RotavatorPopularly known as Rotavator, a rotary tiller is used in both primary and secondary tillage operations. Managing soil with rotavator ensures that the land is perfectly levelled with no clods to make it perfect for planting seeds.

  5. HarrowsHarrow is used as primary tillage equipment in an open field for superficial ploughing, smashing the clods, aerate the soil and burying the organic remains and substances under the surface. Few Harrow models are high speed disc harrow,  power harrow, poly disc harrow etc.

  6. Sub SoilersSub soiler are used in the areas where deep tillage is required especially to break up hardpan layers in the soil and loosening the subsoil for improved drainage, ideal root growth and mineral osmosis.

  7. CultivatorA cultivator is used to loosen and aerate the soil to a depth of nine inches. The cultivator is used as secondary tillage machinery that easily till the soil on each side of the rows in the fields, removing unwanted weeds and grass.

  8. RipperA Ripper is used to cut the weed roots under the surface, leaving the organic matter on the upper layer of the soil. It is suitable to use even in dry and harsh lands as the equipment have a robust structure to keep it safe from damages by underground stones & roots.

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