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creators_name: Awadhwal, N K
creators_name: Thierstein, G E
icrisatcreators_name: Thierstein, G E
affiliation: ICRISAT(Patancheru)
country: India
title: Development of Rolling-Type Soil Crust Breaker
ispublished: pub
subjects: s2.11
full_text_status: restricted
abstract: Soil crusting or capping is a serious problem in arid and semiarid regions; it restricts the emergence of crop seedlings. A mechanical, rolling soil crust breaker was designed, developed, and tested in the field. The equipment is of simple construction and breaks the soil crust over the rows of germinated seeds effectively, improving emergence significantly without any damage to seedlings. It can be manually operated as a single-row unit or a multiple row unit and can be pulled by animal draft power or a small tractor
date: 1983
date_type: published
publication: Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America
volume: 14
number: 4
publisher: Shin-Norinsha Co. Country 
pagerange: 31-34
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0084-5841
related_url_url: http://scholar.google.co.in/scholar?hl=en&q=allintitle%3A+Development+of+Rolling-Type+Soil+Crust+Breaker&btnG=Search&as_sdt=0%2C5&as_ylo=&as_vis=0
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citation:   Awadhwal, N K and Thierstein, G E  (1983) Development of Rolling-Type Soil Crust Breaker.  Agricultural Mechanization in Asia, Africa and Latin America, 14 (4).  pp. 31-34.  ISSN 0084-5841     
document_url: http://oar.icrisat.org/3374/1/JA_260.pdf