_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ # Research Scholar; † Assistant Professor; ‡ Professor & Head; ¥ Professor; *Corresponding author: E-mail: suthaaa@gmail.com; International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 12(11): 2095-2104, 2022; Article no.IJECC.91562 ISSN: 2581-8627 (Past name: British Journal of Environment & Climate Change, Past ISSN: 2231–4784) Design and Development of Ground Collection System for Neem Fruit Anant Venktesh Tripathi a# , B. Suthakar a*† , A. Surendrakumar a‡ , R. Kavitha a¥ and K. Raja b† a Department of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. b Department of Nano Science and Technology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/IJECC/2022/v12i1131199 Open Peer Review History: This journal follows the Advanced Open Peer Review policy. Identity of the Reviewers, Editor(s) and additional Reviewers, peer review comments, different versions of the manuscript, comments of the editors, etc are available here: https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/91562 Received 25 June 2022 Accepted 02 September 2022 Published 03 September 2022 ABSTRACT India is one of the leading producers of neem in the world. But still, there is no mechanical system available for either harvesting the neem fruits from the tree or collecting the neem fruits from the ground. Also, the manual ground collection of neem fruit is a very laborious and time-consuming operation. The cost of ground collection of neem fruit is higher than its selling price which makes neem plantation uneconomical. The introduction of a collection system for collecting the neem fruit from the ground may represent the technological change that is the key factor for improved competitiveness. The main purpose of this work was to develop ground collection system based on the principle of suction. The design of the machinery was based on a determination of fruit geometry and its physical and engineering properties. The proposed innovation enabled a fully mechanical solution for collecting the fallen neem fruit from the ground, achieving a collection capacity of approximately 10 kg.h -1 with a collection efficiency of over 90%. Original Research Article