Design of multipurpose agro-tool kit for 1 acre paddy farming

The project theme was designing for the bottom of the pyramid. The rural areas in India pose an incredible array of design opportunities as it belongs to a part of India whose needs are largely unmet.Despite advances in agro-based technologies, there is a void felt by present day subsistence farmers in terms of an affordable compact universal tool set, which can handle being lugged around in rough terrains.

This project encompasses the empirical design process we followed to, introduce a product that can be used for the process of Harvesting, Threshing and Winnowing of paddy in Subsistence farming.

The main objective being the integration of existing technologies which helps us cater to a sector of the market that buys very low cost products. Using the existing framework of a Harvesting machine we have tried to integrate the same product for the additional purposes of Threshing and Winnowing, keeping in mind safety, affordability and serviceability.