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Food Productivity & Empowerment of Farmers
{{contributorFullName}} | 07-12-2016
The innovation is a portable solar cotton picker used to harvest cotton. During usage, the portable battery stores the extra power that is generated by the solar panel. The stored power can be used in the evening by farmers to light their homes and run home appliances.
In many cotton growing countries, villages have no electricity. It was thus not possible to harvest using the conventional cotton picking machines as the batteries had to be recharged overnight. Conventional solar charging solutions were not feasible as they were large, difficult to transport & install, and expensive. Agventures thus developed a small, compact, portable solar panel that could be mounted on the worker’s back while harvesting. A circuitry was provided for the panel to regulate voltages and initiate proper charging of the battery to run the machine. The worker thus could harvest the cotton with the solar powered cotton picking machine and also have a fully charged battery by the end of the day. The company provided wall mountable LED bulbs and a mobile charger free of cost so that farmers could light their homes in the evening.
It helps small, subsistence farmers pick 200 kg cotton in 6 hours compared to 50 kgs through handpicking. It increases productivity, profitability and reduces dependence on electricity.
Cotton harvesting in developing countries like India and African nations is predominantly done through the manual practice of handpicking. The cotton picking machines are developed to suit the rough local conditions, terrain and power them with solar energy. This will solve the problem of farmers not being able to charge batteries overnight in power deficit areas.
Replaces the painful, laborious practice of hand harvesting with a solar powered solution. Reduces child and woman labor.Children can go back to school during harvesting season.
Harvests 3X more cotton and picks high quality cotton thereby increasing profitability by 25%
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