Development of a high clearance android-controlled inter-row weeder for rice intensification system
Research was carried out to develop a high clearance inter-row weeder machine with Android control system, to address the challenge of high crop damage associated existing inter-row weeding machines due to low ground clearance under the system of rice intensification. This research was carried out in three main stages namely: Preliminary studies to evaluation of some existing inter-row weeders, Development of a prototype high clearance Android controlled weeding machine and Evaluation of the prototype machine. Four existing mechanical inter-row weeding machines with different design configurations used by farmers in Tanjung Karang Malaysia under system of rice intensification were selected and evaluated in terms of crop damage factor at forty days after transplanting. .. Read Full Paper here; Android weeder thesis