Milking Machine

Raghav Gowda (Milking machine) Karnataka
Finding skilled labour for milking a small herd of cows is a problem faced by many farmers.

But using machines for milking is a luxury which only a large farm or a dairy house can afford. Raghava decided to develop some method of milking, which would be affordable for all farmers.
The result: an easy to operate and low cost milking machine that can milk 1.5-2 litre of milk per minute.
The machine can be used to remove all the milk from the udder. The cow feels as if it is being suckled and does not experience any pain.

Bicycle Weeder

Gopal Bhise (Bicycle Weeder) Maharashtra
Bhise has fixed a rod with a blade at the end, to an assembly consisting of only the front wheel and the handle of a bicycle.

He has named the assembly as 'Krishiraja', and claims it to be extremely efficient in removing weeds from hard land.
It is very useful device for ploughing/inter culture operation in very small farm plots, gardens and kitchen gardens. One can cover 0.08 hectare in one hour.

Lemon cutter

M. Nagarajan (Lemon cutter)
Tamil Nadu

A small workshop owner from Uslampathy village in Tamilnadu, M Nagarajan has developed an innovative technology for cutting lime into small pieces in bulk quantity.

This technology offers a great value proposition for the pickle manufacturing companies. The pickle industry suffers with a big problem of inefficiency in its operations due to low degree of automisation e.g. cutting of fruits is done manually.

The second big problem, the industry faces is short-supply of labour during peak seasons, which limits the capacity.

It is a novel machine in terms of its cost effectiveness, efficiency, drudgery reduction for women, safety considerations and transmission system.

Hand operated water lifting pump

N Sakthimainthan (Hand operated water lifting pump)
Tamil Nadu
Sakthimainthan built his hand operated water pump in response to a dearth of available pumps that could be afforded by small farmers.

He built five prototypes over a period of fifteen years before finally perfecting his design.
The resulting water-lifting device is operated by the continuously rotating a handle. It is simple in design and has a high discharge at low cost compared to the motorized pumps and conventional hand pumps.
The pump has discharge of 20,000 lph at 0.75 m head. The unit has also been tested by TNAU, Coimbatore and improved by CMERI Durgapur. It is useful device for drainage as well.

Multi-Utility Fuel Efficient Stove

A stove is still the most widely used device for cooking in large parts of rural and semi-urban India. This domestic product has huge social signifance. However, it is also a reason why a majority of rural women have breathing-related disorders due to inefficient burning of kerosene. These stoves also lead to huge loss of fuel.

This is where Mr. S. C. Joe’s invention comes in. 56-year old Mr. S.C Joe has 32 years of experience as an Industrial electrician in the fields of air conditioning & refrigeration , solar equipment. He still pursues experiments to build devices using his experience in heat exchange. Mr. Joe has shown that there really is no age bar for innovation.

His latest innovation is called the Multi-Utility Fuel Efficient Stove. The stove has a burner, boiler and water regulator. It’s innovative features are:

    Minimal Loss of energy
    Cooking can be done for 14 hours in one litre of kerosene.
    Smoke free and vapour free
    Heat lost from the sides is absorbed by a built-in boiler from which steam and hot water can be trapped.
    Possesses an inbuilt water jacket for Steam Generation.

Thus the stove makes optimum use of the fuel and the energy generated from it. The steam jacket can withstand high pressures and has been tested for a pressure of 200 kPa (double the atmospheric pressure).

Seed Oil Extracter

An oil expeller is essentially a mechanical machine that squeezes raw materials under
high pressure to extract oil. Conventional oil expellers are less efficient and consume
significant amount of electricity.

Enter Mr. Kalpesh Gajjar. An incredible man who taught himself various complex
concepts solely based on experimenting and developing ideas, prototypes and products
on his own. Mr. Gajjar passed his SSC and had no further formal education. Yet, he has
gone on to invent The Swastik Oil Expeller machine. This energy efficient oil expeller
is noteworthy for following reasons:

    It is 3 times faster than other oil expellers
    It consumes two-third of the power consumed by other oil expellers
    It is only half the size of the conventional oil expeller

The machine provides oil millers the highest efficiency in a compact shape. The motor
transmits power to the crusher using a planetary gear system that provides high torque
and average speed thus increasing the efficiency and reducing transmission losses
by 200%.
The oil expeller is designed to be able to crush all kinds of dry oil seeds, including
cotton seeds. The machine is at least three times more efficient than any other oil
expeller existing in Indian and international markets. The length of the machine is
3055 mm, width 1045 mm and height 2145 mm. The machine has now been patented
in India and US.

For this innovation, Mr. Gajjar has received the Sarabhai award from Gujarat
Government. GIAN has mobilised a grant from TePP programme to improvise
his technology as well.

Bullock Operated Sprayer

Radhey Shyam Sharma (Bullock operated sprayer)
Madhya Pradesh

Bhanjibhai Mathukia
Gujarat
The bullock operated sprayer is pulled by a pair of bullocks and gets the drive from the ground through a gear box and belt pulley system.
When the operator shifts the lever to a higher gear, the frequency of strokes of the pump increases as a result of which more pressure develops in the container. The spray fluid, thus, atomizes into fine droplets with a wider swath.

This sprayer considerably reduces time requirement as compared to manual spraying and also the drudgery and health hazards involved in manual spraying.

It has 18 nozzles, spaced at a distance of 35 cm and can cover 3.5 acre/h.

Amazing Innovation

Bhagwan Singh Dangi (Reaper windrower machine)
Madhya Pradesh
Many times, in a standing crop, soybean pods shatter due to non-availability of labourers for harvesting the crop in time, leading to reduced yield and loss. To solve this problem Bhagwan Singh decided to develop a reaper windrower machine.
This device has three different units namely, cutting unit, which consists of cutter bar, reel unit for pushing the standing crop towards the cutter bar and gathering unit to windrow the crop at centre of the machine thus making it easy to handle/transport to the threshing floor.

It reduces manpower requirement and the drudgery involved in the harvesting process. The machine has 7 ft width of operation and can cover 0.4 hectares per hour. While operating this machine, fuel consumption of tractor is 2.5-3 litres per hour.

Amazing Innovation

Dharamveer Kamboj (left), an innovator, explains his aloe vera processor invention
in a temple in the village of Lasukiya in the Sehore district of Madhya Pradesh, India.
The tabletop machine can cheaply make aloe vera gel from aloe leaves.