Allied & ICAR Exam Bank • ALLIED_0813 NAT • 2 Marks

Section 2: Farm Machinery

Farm Machinery

Subtopic: Functional requirements, principles of working, construction and operation of manual, animal, tractor and renewable energy operated equipment for tillage, sowing, planting, fertilizer application, inter-cultivation, spraying, mowing, chaff cutting, harvesting and threshing

Question Statement:

An inclined-plate planter plate has 24 cells around its periphery. For each revolution of the plate, exactly 24 seeds are discharged. If the plate rotates at $30\text{ rpm}$, the seed discharge rate in seeds per second is:

Answer Key:

12

Step-by-Step Solution & Explanation

Discharge $= 30 \times 24 / 60 = 720 / 60 = 12.0\text{ seeds/s}$.
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