• Tejas Kakade
• Darshan Hindocha
• Pankaj Rithe
• Hrishikesh Gosavi
• M.J.Naidu

India being an agricultural country, Farming is most widely followed profession in India. Agricultural products contribute a major portion to our economy. Recently India seen a shortage of skilled labour available for agriculture. Because of this shortage the farmers have transitioned to using crop reaper. These agricultural crop reapers are available for purchase but because of their high Costs, they are not affordable for small scale farmers. Existing machine are more costlier and inconvenient for the agricultural fields in India, so we there’s a need of machines which targets the small scale farmers who have land area of less than 2acres. The history of agriculture contains many conventional agricultural methods and tools such as plough sickle, scythe etc. In traditionally harvesting technique, harvesting of field is done manually with the help sickle.To overcome the problem of harvesting for small scale farmers designing and optimization of heavy harvesting machine to compact crop reaper is required. This machine is compact and can cut up to two rows of plant. It has cutting blades which cut the crop in a scissoring type of motion. This machine is compact and can cut up to two rows of plant. It has cutting blades which cut the crop in a scissoring type of motion. There are no is cutter on two metal strip (plate) upper cutter plate will be reciprocate by scotch yoke mechanism, It runs on electrical AC motor with 1Hp capacity or engine, this power, is provided through pulley and gear box arrangement to the cutter. A collecting mechanism is provided for the collection of crops to one side after cutting. This mechanism is also powered by pulley arrangement, two sprockets and chain arrangements given for collection of crops. This compact harvester is manufactured using locally available spare parts and thus, it is easily maintainable. This harvester might be the solution to the problems faced by a small scale farmer regarding cost and labour implementation. After testing this machine in farm it is found that the cost of harvesting using this harvester is considerably less as compare to manual harvesting.

"Design of Portable Crop Reaper", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.454-462, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBB06090.pdf

"Design of Portable Crop Reaper", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp454-462, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIRBB06090.pdf