Topic- Farm Machinery and Power

Farm Machinery and Power (FMP) is very interested and foundation course for Agricultural Engg. students. It covers a wide range of subjects, starts from indigenous plough to automatic thrasher from one side and bullock drawn implements to tractor drawn implement on another side but all aspects are inter linked in terms of their respective performance and efficiency. eg. Firstly you need to understand how a bullock drawn mouldboard plough works and what are various forces acting on that before going to deal with tractor drawn mouldboard plough. It’s always advisory to start from ground level. Once your basic is clear it will help you to deal with much wider set of problems effectively and efficiently, same is true for other subjects as well. Farm Machinery and Power mainly deals with farm implements and Tractor. From study point of view you can categorized these two subjects and accordingly you can plan for study.

·        Farm implements section deals with major farm equipment used in agriculture. Eg, Ploughs, Harrow, Cultivator, leveller, Seed drills, Sprayers, Reaper, Mower, Thresher etc. Although, each has its own types and usability based on various terrain conditions but you need to deal with major one and try to understand basics about particular application.

·        Tractors section deals with various constituents of tractor systems  such as engine, clutch, transmission, brake, steering, differential along with is cooling, lubrication, electrical system, hydraulics, three point geometry, traction theory etc. However, Numerical question asked from various sections are limited that you can collect and analyse from previous year questions.

Along with this FMP also includes Renewable energy section which consists of solar energy, wind energy and bio-mass. Taking a firm grasp at these topics will help you to put extra credit into your account.

GATE Perspective- FMP section constitutes minimum 20-25 percentage of total weightage. So by putting a valuable effort at this section you can score fairly well. What you need is to give attention towards chapter you found easier to understand, after that try to understand difficult one. Tractor section is easier as compared to farm section. So, try to accommodate that one first but parallel study is also important. To gain a respectable marks you need to give all section sufficient attention.  


                              

Suggested Reading
SUBJECT	BOOK
Farm Implements	Three Authors and Jagdishwar sahay
Tractor and their Power unit	Four Authors
Theory of Machines	R.S. Khurmi
Tractor and their Power unit	Sanjay Kumar
I.C. Engine	V. Ganesan
Renewable Energy	G.D. Rai

     This books are not specifically designed for GATE, Although, all needful topics are covered by these books. You need to check syllabus and content available and based on that segregate chapters and make proper study plan.                                                   

                                                         “All the best”