kdsingh80 Posted September 11, 2011 Report Share Posted September 11, 2011 FATEHGARH SAHIB: A progressive farmer Gurpreet Singh, a resident of village Mehdudan of district Fatehgarh Sahib has designed and developed a tractor operated harvesting machine with old unused Centrifugal Pump. It may be mentioned here that in the month of September, 2010, lot of basmati crop has been damaged due to hailstorm (around 30-40%) in some areas of district Fatehgarh Sahib. The grains were shattered on to the ground during hailstorm and harvesting. According to farmer Gurpreet Singh the shattered grains were collected with this machine by suction created with Centrifugal Pump which sucks the grains from the ground and put it into the drum. He said the machine has been used by other farmers of the district as well. Rohit Sharma, Dr. Harinder Singh and Arwinder Singh Kang from Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Fatehgarh Sahib validated the machine for its technical performance and the national award was applied to Directorate of Rice Research, Hyderabad. Tractor operated harvesting machine The farmer Gurpreet Singh was given invitation to attend the Rice farmers Innovators Meet at Hydrabad. On August 2 ,2011, the National Rice Innovation Award – 2011 was awarded to him after through screening and was honoured with a certificate and momento. Gurpreet Singh said 25 farmers/farm women were awarded from all over India with only 3 farmers from the Punjab. On this occasion, Gurpreet Singh gave a power point presentation on this innovation. Gurpreet claimed that the machine was also got verified for its technical and economic performance by senior scientists from Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana. gurpreetsinghmehak@gmail.com http://punjabnewsline.com/content/progressive-farmer-designed-and-developed-tractor-operated-harvesting-machine/33218 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSD1 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 And people say Sikhs are stupid when it comes to improvisation and technology.................. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatanga1 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 thats good news. lots of rice is ruined just at the time of its harvest if the rainfall is too severe. And there nothing that farmers can do. Lots of hard work goes to ruin. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SURYADEV Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 And people say Sikhs are stupid when it comes to improvisation and technology.................. well this is a one off. is there a trend of technology utilisation or industrial innovation in Panjab? I dont believe there is. Also the easy job of innovating is done by this chap. The hard part is to capitalise on it. Real progress is made if he can sell the technology to the masses by manufacturing, licensing etc. only then will it benefit anyone. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSD1 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 well this is a one off. is there a trend of technology utilisation or industrial innovation in Panjab? I dont believe there is. Also the easy job of innovating is done by this chap. The hard part is to capitalise on it. Real progress is made if he can sell the technology to the masses by manufacturing, licensing etc. only then will it benefit anyone. There is no trend as there is no central government or local government investment in science or technology. Countries like Britain start getting jitters every time they cut their science R and D budget because they dont want to get left behind other countries. The British or anyone else are not naturally cleverer than Sikh Punjabis. They just invest more into key areas because they know the average person in their country just muddles through life. Where as Sikhs have the brains, just not the educational infrastructure to utilise it. This guy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narinder_Singh_Kapany had to leave Punjab to reach the limits of his abilities. Another Sikh boy in Punjab was on a documentary a few years ago back for being a genius and working on a cure to cancer. The thing is that trying to achieve technological advances and industrial practices when you dont have a decent school syllabus, specialised colleges, well funded university departments with links to industry and strong business/patent law to protect innovation then you are fighting an uphill struggle. If this farmer was as moronic as some people like to make Sikhs out to be, then he would just have looked at his rice all over the place and walked away thinking 'Oh well', like people do in the rest of the world. But he didnt. Of course he now faces problems building working models and putting them into production. But the economic circumstances of East Punjab dont help. In other countries there would be banks lining up to give him loans to go into production and agricultural colleges offering technical help and information/labs to help in the prototype phase. Hopefully the institutions of East Punjab will step up to help people like him. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatanga1 Posted September 12, 2011 Report Share Posted September 12, 2011 Of course he now faces problems building working models and putting them into production. But the economic circumstances of East Punjab dont help. In other countries there would be banks lining up to give him loans to go into production and agricultural colleges offering technical help and information/labs to help in the prototype phase. Hopefully the institutions of East Punjab will step up to help people like him. If he has copyrighte the design, then he could possibly make some money on it, but he will probably get every Tara, Dara and Hari just copying what he's done, left right and centre, and he might not even care as it will help people esp farmers a lot. but india has huge investment in agriculture outside of panjjab after 1984, so its possible the govt may eventually do something. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSD Posted October 5, 2022 Report Share Posted October 5, 2022 A fine example of anglo-american engineering: 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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