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P. Lakshmi Narayana, a husbandman from Reddypalem colony successful Kothapatnam mandal of Prakasam district, has developed a elemental weeder that costs conscionable ₹1,000.
Speaking to The Hindu, helium said the thought to marque his ‘Cycle Weeder’ came from a random treatment connected getting escaped of weeds connected fields without spending ample sums. He said the tool, which helium made by removing the beforehand instrumentality of his aged bicycle and welding a leaf to it, allows him to easy weed an acre of tract alone, a task which different took 10 workers to complete.
Mr. Lakshmi Narayana presently cultivates chilli, groundnut and vegetables connected his ain one-and-half acre successful the village. He pays a farmhand ₹1,500 a time to weeds his tract utilizing the ‘cycle weeder’. He said helium utilized to walk implicit ₹5,000 a time for the task earlier.
“Taking their cue from the ‘cycle weeder’, galore section farmers person made akin tools by spending ₹1,000 astatine the wielding shop,” helium claimed.
