Name : Madanlal Kumawat
District & State : Jaipur, Rajasthan
Category : Agricultural (General)
Award : Consolation
Award Function : 1st National Grassroots Innovation Awards
Award Year : 2001
Price : Rs 2,90,000 (ex-factory India price + packaging). The price does not include transportation costs, taxes, etc
Delivery Period : 6-7 days after confirmed order with 40 per cent of the price as advance payment. For bulk order
Innovation Description
- Award Status
- IPR Status
- Technical Specification
- Salient Features
Mr. Madan Lal Kumavat lives in Jaipur district in a village known as Balmukundpura, which is near Bagru village. He and his brother have studied upto primary level. His brother Shankar Lalji has been working in a small company which makes threshers. He learned all the things required for making threshers, and he has taken care that the problems faced by the farmers should not repeat in his machine.
Improved Thresher:
He has devised a thresher, by changing the sieves of which, grain seeds, oil seeds and pulse crops could be threshed. It has only two bearings, which could be changed easily.
Advantages:
The quality of the seeds threshed with the help of this thresher is good and hence they could be packed directly. It has a capacity to thresh 15-30 quintals of seeds / hour.