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  • JAZAL KT; Dr. Jayan P. R., (Guide) (FMPE, KCAET, Tavanur, 2026)
  • MISRIYA K; AMNA K; FEMINA BANU K C; Edwin Benjamin, (Guide) (FMPE, KCAET, Tavanur, 2026)
    Rice cultivation is increasingly affected by labour scarcity, rising production costs, water stress, and the limitations of conventional transplanted rice systems. Direct seeded rice (DSR) has emerged as a promising ...
  • BINJU MS; NAJMA FARSANA T; AMRITHA S; Dipak Suresh Khatawkar, (Guide) (FMPE, KCAET, Tavanur, 2026)
    Growbag cultivation has emerged as a significant component of protected agriculture, particularly for vegetable and seedling nurseries. However, manual growbag filling is a highly labour-intensive and ergonomically ...
  • Devika, Guguloth; Sanchu, Sukumaran (KCAET, Tavanur, 2026)
  • ASHTAMI DEV; SHAHANA I P; MUHAMMED AJMAL C; Jayan P R (Guide) (DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY AND POWER ENGINEERING, 2025)
  • ATHIRA DINESH; GOPIKA O; AVANTHIKA SHAJI; SANCHU SUKUMARAN (Guide) (DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY AND POWER ENGINEERING, 2025)
  • MOHAMMED SUHAIL V K; CHAITHANYA VIJAYAN; ROSHNI V S; Sindhu Bhaskar, (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery and Power engineering, 2025)
  • KAVYA ANIL; SHIFNA SHERIN CT; ABHIRAMI KRISHNA; DHALIN D, (Guide) (DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY AND POWER ENGINEERING, 2025)
    An implement was successfully developed for the efficient collection of cashew apples from the ground and the mechanical separation of cashew nuts from the fruit. This innovation was aimed at addressing key challenges ...
  • Ayisha Mangat; Sureshkumar, P K (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery & Power Engineering, 2025)
    Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is a versatile tree with global cultivation spanning about 12 million hectares. India leads in production, contributing around 31.45% of the world's total coconut output. In Kerala, coconut ...
  • Athira Prasad; Dhalin, D (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery & Power Engineering, 2025)
    An air-assisted electrostatic sprayer prototype suitable for coconut palms was designed and developed. Studies on the important plant parameters, including height of palm, canopy diameter, and angle of leaf orientation, ...
  • Mahesh Babu, T; Preman, P S (Department of Farm Machinery & Power Engineering, 2024)
    India is the largest producer of spices in the world and ginger contributes 43.00 per cent of world production of ginger. Ginger, turmeric, garlic, clove, etc. are some of the common spice crops. The production of ginger ...
  • Kumar, Amit; Jayayan P R, (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, 2024)
    Addressing the global population surge expected to reach 10.4 billion by the mid-2080s, especially in densely populated regions like India, poses significant agricultural challenges. Integrating pulses into sustainable ...
  • Archana, IB; Akshay Parameswaran; Abhirami Bhaskar; Archana, A; Jayan, PR (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, 2024)
    Increase in world population, and rising living standards and industrialisation are driving global energy demand further upwards. To meet sustainable development goals and energy demand, the energy sector must be transformed ...
  • Sumith Raju; Justin Basil Isac; Soorya Surendran; Afna Sharin, EP; Sindhu Bhaskar, (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, 2024)
    Nowadays, harvesting delicate and high-value fruits, vegetables, and edible fungi requires a large input of manual human labour. Robotic systems that selectively harvest crops are being developed. Robotic grippers serve ...
  • Harsha, P; Nithya Robert; Fathima Mariyam Saadiya; Dilkhush Giri; Dhalin, D (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, 2024)
    A specialized coconut embryo plug scooping tool was developed to effectively extract the coconut endosperm along with the coconut embryo. The equipment comprises several key components like a scooping tool tip designed ...
  • Meharban Shah, UM; Abhaya C Anil; Aditya Tiwari; Shubham Sonu; Sanchu Sukumaran (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, 2024)
    Mechanization indeed presents a promising solution to address the challenges faced in agriculture, particularly in regions where labour shortages are prevalent. The decreasing rural population is becoming increasingly ...
  • RAVEENDRANATHAN, VARUN; P R, JAYAN (Guide) (Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, 2024)
    In the traditional Kaipad paddy cultivation method, the process includes creating mounds for planting germinated seeds. These mounds are left in the field for around 45 days, allowing leaching to decrease soil salinity ...
  • K, RANJISHA; Bhaskar, Sindhu (Guide) (Department of Farm Power Machinery and Power engineering, 2023)
    The pineapple is a tropical plant with an edible fruit and is the most economically significant plant in the family Bromeliaceae. Pineapples grow as a small shrub and is normally propagated from the suckers produced ...
  • SAM, BINI (DEPARTMENT OF FARM MACHINERY AND POWER ENGINEERING, 2023)
    Tillage is the physical manipulation of soil with tools and equipment to achieve good tilth for enhanced seed generation and subsequent crop growth. A spading machine works as an alternative to the plough for primary ...
  • KALYAN CHAKRAVARTHI, N. L; Jayan, P. R (2023)
    The harvesting of tuber crops is one of the serious bottlenecks in the tuber crop production value chain which requires immediate attention for developing appropriate mechanical harvesting technology. The conventional ...

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