Agriculture mechanization plays a significant economic role by increasing agriculture production and reducing cost\r\nof cultivation. There is a dire need to develop more processing machinery for value addition of agricultural produce with a\r\nreduction in time and labour. The planting operation is one of the most important tasks that sugarcane growers undertake. It\r\nshould result in a plant stand at the desired density that emerges quickly and uniformly. Austoft sugarcane planter was studied\r\nand the CAD model for metering device was simulated with Catia software. Main components of this machine are hopper,\r\nmetering device, and basis. Multiple regression and Response Surface Methodology (RSM) were applied to data for\r\ninvestigating the effect of angle and speed of sugarcane billet metering device on discharging and precision indices. The\r\nspeed of metering device had more effect than angle on both performance indices. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) used to\r\nmatch the best operation condition for discharging billets from hopper. The angle of 80�° and speed of 1 m s-1 was the best\r\nsuited condition for sugarcane billet metering device with 98.64% for precision index and 4.2 billets in per second for\r\ndischarging index. A consistency ratio evaluation value of 0.1 confirmed the results.
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