Bhushana Babu

Bhushana Babu
Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering | CIAE · agricultural mechanization division

Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Inference, DOE, Sample Survey analysis, Fuzzy, Neural Networks, MCDA, Mechanization in Agriculture and forecasting

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Publications (26)
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The identification of suitable conservation agricultural (CA) practices plays a significant role in global food security. A 3-year (2018–2020) field experiment was conducted in Vertisols of the semi-arid tropics of central India to investigate the effects of CA practices and irrigation methods on the yield, water productivity (WP) and energetics of...
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Exposure of mechanical stress due to different spray components can cause permanent damage to biopesticide containing Bacillus thuringiensis microbes. The study was conducted to investigate the effect of spray operating parameters on the viability of biopesticide suspension containing B. thuringiensis. Water solution containing biopesticide B. thur...
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"The objective of this paper was to assess the current status of farm machinery manufacturers in Madhya Pradesh along with farm machinery market size, production potential and demand of farm machinery using primary data. To achieve the goal, primary data were collected through pre-tested and wellstructured proforma in 2017-18 adopting post-stratifi...
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The objective of this study is to estimate technical efficiency of farm machinery manufacturers in Central India. The statistical test for the presence of technical inefficiency has been performed using stochastic frontier production model. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has been used to identify existing returns to scale in farm machinery manufac...
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This paper describes the significance of the iterative approach and the structure damping analysis which help to get better the performance and validation of shunt capacitive RF MEMS switch. The micro-cantilever based electrostatic ally actuated shunt capacitive RF MEMS switch is designed and after multiple iterations on cantilever structure a modi...
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A study was conducted for efficient delivery of bio-pesticides for controlled spray application by selecting proper nozzles and operating parameters. The spray parameters of two different classes of bio-pesticides (bacterial-based Bacillus thuringiensis and fungalbased Beauveria bassiana) were evaluated for discharge by three different sizes of hol...
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Acoustical detection of insects feeding and crawling sounds was used to automatically monitor internal and external grain feeding bruchids in order to assess the growth and density of food legume bruchids (Callosobruchus chinensis and Callosobruchus maculatus) in bulk stored chickpea and green gram. Bruchids hidden inside the grain kernels were det...
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Leaf area (L A) measurement provides valuable key information in understanding the growth and physiology of a plant. Simple, accurate and non-destructive methods are inevitable for leaf area estimation. These methods are important for physiological and agronomic studies. However, the major limitations of existing leaf area measurement techniques ar...
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The income of farmer is affected by so many factors including farm mechanization. At present, shortage of agricultural labour is an important bottleneck in agricultural production system. It is estimated that percentage of agricultural worker of total work force would drop to 25.7 per cent by 2050 from 54.6 per cent in 2011. Present study has an at...
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The objective of this paper is to construct Crop Productivity Index (CPI) to rank different districts of the Madhya Pradesh, India. The CPI ratings provide a relative ranking based on their potential for crop production. The secondary data on productivity of Rice, Wheat, Gram, Groundnut, Sugarcane and Urd of 51 districts of Madhya Pradesh for the y...
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Moisture sorption isotherm data of ready‐to‐puff preconditioned brown rice shall enable in finding solutions for prolonging the period between preconditioning and puffing. Designed full factorial experiments were conducted with ready‐to‐puff preconditioned brown rice at five different salt concentrations (SC) ranging 0–4%, varying temperature (T),...
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India is the third largest producer of maize, where the majority of land holdings are of small (1-2 ha) and medium (2-4 ha) size. Dehusking and shelling are two major operations carried out after harvesting of maize. Farmers need a dehusker cum sheller with medium capacity that suits their requirement for successful adoption in maize growing region...
Technical Report
The technical bulletin is prepared under the project "Status of Farm Machinery Manufacturers in Madhya Pradesh" and information regarding manufacturing of machines has been collected during the visits made by project leader and associates. The information given in the directory is compiled by authors, ICAR-CIAE, Bhopal assumes no responsibility of...
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Distribution and intensity of rainfall varies over time and space. In this paper, we study probability models for spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall in western zone of Haryana. Exponential, gamma, Gumbel, lognormal and Weibull distributions were fitted to daily rainfall data of 34 years (1971 to 2005) covering 13 rainfall stations across...
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Pulse bruchid-infested samples of green gram (Vigna radiata) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum) having different moisture contents (7.5–9.5% wb) (1 cm bed depth) were exposed to microwave–hot air treatment for different exposure times (3 min 20 s to 6 min) and hot air temperatures (40–60 °C). Protein content, cooking time, textural kinetics, color and...
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The agriculture system is affected by several biotic and abiotic factors which directly or indirectly influence the farming community. Around half of the workforce is employed in the agriculture sector which contributes only 17.5 per cent inGDP. Only 47.6 per cent of the cropped area in the country is irrigated and remaining area depends on monsoon...
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In the present paper, time series data on rainfall, fertilizer consumption and food grain production have been analyzed and studied and food grain production have been modelled using structural time series modelling. It was found that both monsoon as well as annual rainfall was not following uniform distribution. Also, a decreasing trend in fertili...
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Indian mustard [Brassica juncea (L.) Czern & Coss.] varieties were identified through distinctiveness, uniformity and stability (DUS) testing protocol on the basis of experiment conducted during 2013-14 and 2014-15 consecutive years. The experimental procedure was carried as per official guideline of Indian mustard (PPV & FRA, 2009). The selected m...
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In summary, agriculture equipment production in India is expected to remain flat in 2015, but the market will grow at a 5 % growth rate in the next five years. Overall, the market remains concentrated, although introduction of new government regulation and the shift to higher output machines will help boost growth in the medium and long term. Unit...
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Popped sorghums are popular snack foods and are usually prepared using dry heat. In this investigation, the effect of varieties (Nandel, local Red, Mugad, GJ 42), which were having distinct physico-chemical properties and pericarp thickness on popping properties were studied. Each of the four sorghum varieties was pretreated by moisture conditionin...

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