Farm Canon A great Innovation for Farmers! by Prof. Jayashankar

Gamyam technologies and Prof. Jayashankar Telangana State Agriculture University Introduces “Agri-Cannon” to protect agricultural crops/farms from monkeys. One of the major problems that farmers of Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and other neighbouring states are facing is a monkey menace. Monkeys that enter the fields in groups of 20-25 and have a field day, especially on coconut trees and other seed bearing crops. They enjoy drinking and eating tender coconuts and seeds. Though it is nice to watch them carefully plucking the coconuts, they cause a huge loss to the farmers. They damage or vandalize the crops, fields as they attack on the yield which is in the seeding stage which ends up in huge losses for the farmer.

• Open the latch of the carbide tray(clockwise direction).
• Place the small carbide granules into the tray.
• Properly insert the carbide tray back into the groove.
• Securely lock the latch of the tray.
• Turn off the ball valve knob.
• Pour few drops (ideally 4 to 5 drops) of water.
• Close the ball valve knob.
• The reaction starts with the water drops when water get in contact with the carbide granules.

• Wait for couple of minutes for the gas to be filled into the cylinder.
• Ignite the gas using the gas stove lighter fixed to the cylinder.
• The gas in the cannon fires with a loud sound due to combustion of Gas.
• For better results, use mud roled in waste papers stuffed into the bore of the cannon.