Rotavator Price | Power Tiller | Best Rotary Tiller for Tractor

A power tiller is also known as  rotavator and rotary tiller which is  a two-wheeled agricultural implement,  used for ploughing the soil, sowing seeds, planting seedlings, adding fertilizers, spraying fertilizers, herbicides, and water, pumping water, harvesting crops, threshing crops, and transporting crops. All these additional tasks are performed by attaching agricultural devices such as ploughs, seeders, pumps, sprays, harvesters, threshers, and carriers to the power tiller.

Types of Power Tillers

Power tillers are available in three different sizes –

• Mini-sized Power Tiller
  These lightweight implements are good for vegetable and fruit farms, where the cultivation areas are small, the soil is relatively loose and does not require powerful tilling, and the crops are planted in narrow rows that need to be manoeuvred through without destroying them.

• Medium-sized Power Tiller
  These power tillers are suitable for farms where the soil is harder and rockier. These tillers are propelled forward by the spinning tines.

• Large-sized Power Tiller
  These power tillers are suitable for more extensive farm lands where there is sufficient space to manoeuvre the tiller as required. These tillers are propelled forward by the wheels and the spinning tines are positioned between the wheels.

To select the right power tiller, farmers should consider the size of their land, the type of soil, the amount of tilling necessary, the storage space they have for the power tiller, and their budget for the power tiller.

Top Power Tiller Brands

Most of the power tillers are made by Indian and Chinese agricultural equipment manufacturers. Some of the top Power Tiller brands are given below:

• Farmease Power Tillers
• Fieldking  Power Tillers
• Kubota Power Tillers
• Preet Power Tillers

Most of these power tiller manufacturers offer spare parts for their power tillers, and their service technicians offer training in power tiller usage and maintenance and also conduct power tiller repair work on site as and when it becomes necessary.

Benefits of Power Tiller

Farmers with small and medium sized land-holdings are likely to find power tillers more useful than tractors for the following reasons –

1.    Power tillers are less expensive than tractors, and the Indian government provides subsidies to Indian farmers to purchase them.

2.    Power tillers require less room for storage.

3.    Power tillers consume lower fuel amounts than tractors. If a tractor require two litres of diesel for an hour’s work, a power tiller can make do with one litre in the same time.

4.    Power tillers have relatively low maintenance costs as compared to tractors.

A Culture of Compassion for Agriculture

Learning in school's days from the local environment is very important. learning from a textbook is important but it is equally important to connect with textbook knowledge to real-life challenges around them.

Radha Krishna children belong to financially backward, rural, agrarian communities. Most of the parents are either small farmers and cattle herders. So it is necessary to aware of challenges in farming  for them, if they are to begin thinking of sustainable solutions – this is the vision Radha Krishna  has been actualizing – by educating them about the world agriculture around them, engaging in deep and meaningful ways with the local communities and empowering them to understand the challenges and find ways to help them in various ways.

In Radha Krishna school, as part of a Science field trip, students of Class 7 visited farms in their local village to understand the challenges in a farmer’s life and to recognize the use of a Harvester machine. The farmers were happy to communicate with the students, explaining how the harvester helps them save time and money. The farmers described how it is getting difficult to retain farm labor and the financial burden of agriculture. Use of technology such as the Harvester machines is helping farmers, but they need more help to make their lives financially sustainable. They also had a productive discussion about paddy and its diseases and methods being employed to ensure good crop year on year.

The Harvester Agriculture machine

Through this science trip, the student became much more aware of the difficulties in present in Banaras living through farming, awareness about how Science and Technology can help farmers and that there is still a long way to go in order to make this more productive and less cost-intensive for them.