NEWS BRIEFS
ing) and different climatic condition in different States.
Therefore, hand held kapasplucker machine is one of the
option to bring down the cost for the farmers and a reme-
dy for contamination at farm level due to manual picking.
tralia etc, fully mechanized harvesting by big machines
are not successful in India due to small land holdings of
cotton farmers in India, sowing/picking pattern (3-4 pick-Hand held kapasplucker machine is a light weight (about
600 gram) machine which has a pair of rollers inside hav-
ing small edged teeth on their outer periphery and is oper-
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