Objective: the objective of this invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive fertilizer spreader, in a form of a two – wheeled ‘walk-behind’ device which may be easily and quickly pushed by the farmers for spreading solid fertilizers like urea. problems: generally in the manually spreading of the fertilizers in the farm, some of the problems are occurring like uneven spreading of the fertilizers (wrong stuff and wrong amount) which may result in the crop damage. moreover the conventional spreading of fertilizers by hand in a farm is more time consuming method and require more human effort. project discussion: this is a type of spreader which can be operated manually for spreading granular materials in farms especially for solid fertilizers like urea. the spreader has hopper with at least one orifice in it. at the bottom of hopper a rotating disc is provided for spreading granular materials. as the device gets pushed manually the rotation of the wheels get converted in to vertical rotation of spreading disc by the set of bevel gears. the spreading device normally has a bladed centrifugal spreader comprising disc which is rotated about vertical axes and onto which the product to be spread on the ground is dropped in a suitable manner. each disk also has a plurality of substantially radial spreader blades for directing the product to be spread by the centrifugal effect induced by the rotation and for projecting it onto the ground from the ends of the blades farthest from the axis of rotation. results: present invention results in increase in uniformity of fertilizer spreading, good crop yield, reduction in time required to spread, less human fatigue, prejudiced use of fertilizers and less waste. conclusion: author in this paper has taken up design related project to understand and overcome various problems occurring in conventional fertilizer spreading. uneven spreading, reduce human efforts and reduce time of spreading have been highlighted as key factor for this paper.
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