Innovator: Dipakbhai Patel
Address: Bhachau, District - Kutch, Gujarat
Innovator Profile
While Working As An Owner Of Motor Rewinding Workshop And Also As A Technical Person, Dipakbhai Discussed The Difficulties Faced By Local Farmers For Spraying The Pesticides In Particular Orchard Farming. The Main Points That Came Out Of The Discussions Were High Labor Cost, Lack Of Availability Of Labor & Unproductive Method / Lacking Of Particular Device For Applying Pesticides On To The Plants, Which Would Result In Huge Losses. Low Cost Tractor Operated Hybrid Sprayer Is A Boon For All The Farmers Who Are In Orchard Crop Production Particularly Where Pest As Well Insect And Labour Are The Major Problem. Spraying Pesticides Done With The Help Of Ordinary Sprayer Being Less Effective And Labour Intensive Is Also Cost Intensive.
Dipakbhai Is Innovated Blowing Sprayer, Which Can Be Used In Orchard Crop Like Grapes, Pomegranate Etc. As Well Another Crop Like Cotton, Castor And Also Many With A Tractor Of 20 HP Or More Than That. This Innovative Tractor Operated Sprayer Contain 3 HP Pressure Pump For Applying Pesticides More Effectively On To The Plants. With The Race (Speed) Of 15 Km/Hr Of Tractor, The Fan Of The Sprayer Is Rotated With The Speed Of 450 RPM To 550 RPM, Which Can Able To Divide The Drop Of Pesticides In The Micro Particles. With The Spreading Of This Effective Particles Of Pesticides On To The Plants, It Can More Helpful For Proper Protection Of Crop As Well Farmers Can Able To Save The Use Of More Pesticides In To The Farm. According To The Stage Of Plant (Like Growth Stage, Flowering Stage And Stage Of Fruit Etc.) And Crop, Farmers Can Able To Change The Flow Pressure Of Pesticides. Spraying Capacity Of This Sprayer Is 1 Acre/1 Hour For Particular Pomegranate Crop Which Can Be Vary With The Crops And Planting Pattern.
Dipakbhai Purchased All The Parts From Rajkot For Manufacturing Of Tractor Operated Sprayer. He Is Also Modified It According To The Need Of Farmers. Currently, He Is Selling Hybrid Tractor Operated Sprayer Which Can Able To Spray Pesticides In Orchard Crop As Well Regular Crop In Just 95,000 INR And He Has His Own In-House Fabrication Facilities For Manufacturing This Particular Sprayer.
GIAN is working as Nodal Institute under Start-up Gujarat scheme and supported this innovation for product development.
