Design of an Integrated Cotton Picking System for Small-Scale Indian Agriculture

India, the world's largest producer of cotton, contains more than 4 million cotton farms that are less than 5 acres. These farms are incapable of large-scale mechanization due to small farm size and irregular farm shape. A previous team developed a handheld, roller-based picking device that dem...

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Main Authors: Bautista, Brittany N. (Contributor), Diaz Lankenau, Guillermo Fabian (Contributor), Guitron, Steven P. (Contributor), Jennings, Brandon Douglas (Contributor), Nechlani, Rajkumar aka Ra (Contributor), Tang, Astera S. (Contributor), Tucker, Matthew Ryan (Contributor), Winter, Amos G. (Contributor)
Other Authors: MIT-SUTD Collaboration (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Sloan School of Management (Contributor), System Design and Management Program (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ASME International, 2019-03-07T15:04:21Z.
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