ABE 132 – AB Machinery and
Mechanization
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and
Mechanization
INTRODUCTION
Course Code: ABE 132
Course Name: AB Machinery and Mechanization
Course Description:
Principles of agricultural and bio-production mechanization;
specifications; construction, operation, testing, selection and
economics of agricultural and bio-production machinery; farm
machinery management.
Number of Units: 3 units (2 lec, 1 lab)
Number of Contact
Hours per Week: 5 hours (2 lec, 3 lab)
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Prerequisites: AB Power Engineering
Principles of Soil Science
Principles of Crop Science
Principles of Animal Science
Course Outcome:
At the end of the course, the students should be able to:
1. Discuss the Philippine Agricultural Engineering
Standards;
2. Identify the construction of agricultural and bio-
production machinery;
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
3. Operate agricultural and bio-production machinery; and
4. Evaluate the economics of use of agricultural and bio-
production machinery.
Course Outline:
1. Philippine Agricultural Engineering Standards (PAES).
2. Prime movers in the agricultural and bio-production
systems.
3. Tillage Machinery.
4. Crop Establishment Machinery.
5. Crop Protection Machinery.
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6. Water Pumping Machinery.
7. Harvesting and Threshing Machinery.
8. Economics of use agricultural and bio-production
machinery.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Agricultural Machinery – It deals with the study of application,
use, and management of various agricultural machines, tools, and
equipment used for production and post- production operation.
Agricultural Mechanization - It is the development, manufacture
and extension of appropriate agricultural tools, implements, and
machinery using animal, human, mechanical, electrical, and other
renewable sources of energy for agricultural production and
development and post harvest operations.
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Classifications of Agricultural Machines
A. Agricultural Field Equipment
1. Agricultural Field Implement
2. Agricultural Tractors
3. Self-Propelled Machines
B. Farmstead Equipment
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
1. Agricultural Field Equipment
This are equipment designed primarily for agricultural
field operation. This includes agricultural tractors, self-
propelled machines, implements, and their combinations.
a. Agricultural Tractors
A traction machines designed primarily to supply power to
agricultural implements and farmstead equipment. It propel
itself and provide a force to the direction of travel to enable
attached soil engaging and other agricultural implement to
perform its intended function.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
b. Agricultural Implement - An implement that is designed to
perform agricultural operations. This are further classified
into: towed, mounted, and semi-mounted implements.
c. Self-Propelled Machines – An implement designed with
integral power unit to provide both mobility and power for
performing agricultural operations.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
2. Farmstead Equipment
This are equipment other than agricultural field equipment
used in agricultural operation for the production of food and
fiber. This includes livestock equipment, waste handling system,
crop drying and milling systems, material handling systems, and
others.
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Classifications According to Operation
A. Tillage Equipment
This includes plow and harrow used to prepare the land to
make it ready for seeding and planting operation.
B. Crop Establishment Equipment
These are equipment used to place seeds or plant parts into
the prepared seedbed and subsequently fertilize them.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
C. Crop Maintenance Equipment
This includes cultivating. weeding, spraying, dusting, as
well as irrigation equipment aim to make sure that the crop grows
to produce its potential yield.
D. Harvesting and Threshing Equipment
These are equipment used to gather and separate the
produced from the panicles and make it ready for primary
processing operation.
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E. Drying Equipment
These are equipment used to reduce the moisture of the
product to a level that it can be stored with minimum loss from
spoilage.
F. Milling Equipment
These are equipment used to process the product ready for
consumption.
G. Storage Equipment
These are equipment used to keep the product safe from
deterioration or spoilage for prolong period of storage.
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Agricultural Tractors
Machine used primarily for traction or pulling purposes. It
can also deliver both power for stationary and mobile jobs. It can
pull or tow implement through traction from drive wheel and or
pull implement through the draft developed from the drawbar.
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Plows
They are used as primary tillage implement which
constitutes the initial major soil-working operation, normally
designed to reduce soil strength, cover plant materials, and
rearrange aggregates.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Harrow
Use as secondary tillage implement which are designed to
control weed growth and to create specific soil surface
configuration before seeding.
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Power Tiller
A hand operated machines use to till small sizes of land
enough to replace draft animals.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Seeders
Machines used to open a furrow, place the seeds, and cover it
in a prepared soil.
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Planters
Machine use to place seedlings or plant parts in a prepared
soil.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Sprayers
Machines used to break the liquid into droplets of effective
size and distributes them uniformly over the surface or space to be
protected.
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Pumps
Machines use to lift water at a given flow rate and head.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Reaper Harvester
Reaper-Windrower
A harvesting machine used to cut the standing crops and lay
them down on the field in an orderly manners in a row.
Reaper-Binders
A harvesting machine use to both cut and binds the crops and
afterwards lay the stalks bundles on the ground
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ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Thresher
A machine that separates the rice grain from the panicle.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Stripper Harvester
It is a machine that combines harvesting and threshing into a
single operation. It differs with the combine in that it permits the
removal of grain directly from the head or panicle without cutting
the stalks.
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Combine Harvester
It is a machine that combines harvesting and threshing into a
single operation. It differs with the combine in that it permits the
removal of grain directly from the head or panicle without cutting
the stalks.
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Sheller
Machine used to separates seeds from the cobs or pods.
ABE 132 – AB Machinery and Mechanization Introduction
Grain Dryer
Machine used to reduce the moisture of the grain from a level
that is in equilibrium with the atmosphere or at about 14%.
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Rice Mill
Machine that is used to convert paddy into milled rice.
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Size Reduction Machine
Machines use to reduce the size of material in granular or
powdered form either by cutting, shearing, impact or their
combinations.
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Biomass Shredder
Machine used to reduce the size of fibrous materials and
shattered its fiber through impact action of the beaters or hammers.
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Grain Storage Equipment
Equipment used to safely store the grain immediately after
drying without significant loss in their quality.
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