PRESENT-DAY PATENT- A PREVIEW

Higher crop yields are anticipated by all nations, so as to meet the food demands of their growing population and to empower their economy.  Crop seeding or planting at correct depths inside the soil have a prime role in increasing the crop yield.  Though there are many ways to seed crops that range from the ancient manual seeding techniques to the current precision seeding approaches, most of them seems to be inappropriate for very small, irregularly-shaped farming regions and require tedious installation or maintenance procedures with large associated costs. Keeping this in mind, Devaitechs Private Limited, Maharashtra, India has invented one simple and compact tool that precisely does the dual role of seeding and planting crops. The key components of the device are: (i) A hollow pipe with control plate on the top that controls a half-split conical beak at the bottom of the pipe and (ii) A seed compartment laterally-attached at the bottom end of the hollow pipe. For crop planting, the seed compartment has no role and it is preferably removed from the device and the following steps are made: (i) The crop is placed in the hollow pipe, (ii) The control plate is pulled up to let the conical beaks widen and make a region of precise depth to lay down the crop in the hollow pipe and (iii) The control plate is released to narrow the conical beak, letting the surrounding soil to naturally fill the gap and to enable a stabilized crop transplantation. However, the seeding procedure in the device makes use of the seed compartment and involves few steps as follows: (i) The seeds are placed in the hollow pipe; (ii) The control gate is pulled up to trigger a gear mechanism in the seed compartment that allows the ejection of one seed per time through the conical beak. Hence, the invention supports the optimal growth of crops using an effortless seeding and crop planting procedure. However, similar agriculture-aiding inventions in the future might also incorporate artificial intelligence paradigms, which can predict about the soil nature, soil nutrients and soil temperature or humidity needed for the survival of crops to be seeded or planted. 

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