ABSTRACT: In India animal husbandry is an integral part of the rural economy. Almost every rural family keeps at least a cow or buffalo for meeting milk requirement and to earn some money for daily expenses. The milk production is greatly affected by feeding to the cattle. However most of cattle feeding are provided in the form of whole crop. It may leads to wastage of feeding. It was noted that there is always feeding fodder scarcity in summer. In such situation the whole crop is to be cut into small pieces so that fodder can be used effectively. Presently fodder cutting machines are electric driven as well as hand operated. But today there is huge shortage of electricity almost every parts of India. To overcome uncertainly of electricity, we can replace electrically driven motor by human powered flywheel motor. The chaff cutter energized by human powered flywheel motor is suitable for marginal farmer who have 2-3 cattle. The experimentation carried out for establishing empirical model for identified variables affecting cutting of crop resides.
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