POWER WEEDER VS MANUAL LABOUR - Auto Farm Simplifying Agriculture

In recent years, farmers are becoming more and more conscious about the costs and returns from agriculture in general. Farmers relates the price, which he receives for the produce in the market with his cost of production.

The main expense in agriculture is not to purchase a land or cultivating a crop, but to maintain the crop properly.

Maintaining the crop takes so much of a labor work and expense to be done, which cannot be ignored at any cost.

As everything in this world is getting modernized then why can’t the technology replace the labor expenses?

So we, Autofarm aims to make farming a profitable and respectful profession through modern technology

Everywhere, the farmer had the same challenge — labour availability. “ On digging deeper, I realised that the labour wages growth rate have tripled over the last 10 years causing labour costs to jump multifold for the farmer, while the farm incomes haven't risen commensurately ”

One can increase or decrease their profit, unless he/she gets to choose wise.

Here we help you think wiser by projecting some comparisons which might change your perspective on agriculture.

QUALITY

Manual weeding labors:

They weed using a tool called the “kai kothu” which is a short hand held sickle like weeding tool. These tools reach and cut to about 4-5 inches of the weed.

Fundamentally, during weeding the part of the weed where the leaves join the roots, called the “node” must be cut in order for the weed to die. These nodes are usually found at 6-8 inches of the plant.

Manual weeders fails to cut the nodes, and only cut the leaves, leaving the weed to keep sprouting back almost immediately.

Autofarm power weeder:

Autofarm power weeders which reach the node, cut the nodal area and completely remove the weed.

As weeds are completely destroyed, they do not sprount back as fast.

Why to choose Autofarm power weeder:

This may reduce the requirement to weed by about 25% on average.

Meaning Farms where weeding was done 4 times for a crop can be reduced to 3 times after analysis.

“Our customers are surprised to find that not only do our weeders reduce the time taken for weeding, they also reduce the frequency of weeding” says executives

SPEED OF OPERATION

Manual weeding labors:

One acre in 8 hours (best case)

Autofarm power weeder:

2 acre per day= 1 acre/ 4 hours

Why to choose Autofarm power weeder:

Since the speed of completion of an acre is 2x faster than manual, the total acreage of a farm can be covered in half the time. This will minimise weed damage duration during the weeding operations in a farm.

TIMELY AVAILABILITY

Manual weeding labors:

Labour Unavailability or delayed availability in the case of manual weeding may lead to weeding not done at the time needed.

Autofarm power weeder:

Labour issue is solved since power weeder is always available and can be operated by a single person

Why to choose Autofarm power weeder:

Studies show that not weeding at the appropriate time can have significant impacts on yield. An experiment on corn, in the United States has shown that removal of weeds at 2 inches, 4 inches and 6 inches result in yield losses in corn on average of 2, 4 and 9% respectively.
Whereas in certain extreme cases, there has been yield losses of 13, 14 and 23% respectively for the same weed sizes. And the rate of loss of yield per day increases rapidly as size of weed increases. This shows that every day delayed after weed emergence must have some consequence on Yield.

Overall advantage of Autofarm power weeder:

Can weed more times if needed, as operation cost is low.

This may keep field weed free at all times.

Keeping the field weed free will result in zero percentage weed related yield loss.

Keeping the field weed free at all times protects against pests and diseases.