In
sugarcane crop cultivation after the sugarcane plant grows
to a certain height in the furrows , it is then covered
with part of the soil of the adjacent ridges by breaking-up
and Loosening-up the ridges. This is known as off barring
and healing-up operation, which in short means, where earlier
the furrow with sugarcane plant was is made into a ridge
and where the ridge existed earlier is converted into a
furrow. This is an important operation in sugarcane cultivation.
The
conventional method for this important operation is carried
out by use of implements made of wood , and light steel,
drawn by a pair of bullocks. Thus such a necessary and important
operation involves one person , and a pair bullocks. Moreover
this is a very tedious and time consuming operation.
Popular
off - Barring & Healing - up implement has been recently
and newly developed by the
R & D department of the company .
It
consists of a single base ridger attached to the rear side
of a steel frame . The front side of this frame consists
of three tines, and at the boot of these tines are attached
bar - points . The tines loosens up the soil of the ridges
and the single base surry ridger makes a deep furrow , throwing
up the soil to make a ridge where earlier the furrow with
the plant existed .
This
implement will help farmers to mechanise this operation
and complete it very quickly . Thus larger field areas can
be operated within very short periods of time.
