Int.J.Curr.Microbiol.App.Sci (2020) 9(12): 1730-1740 1730 Original Research Article https://doi.org/10.20546/ijcmas.2020.912.205 Influence of Tool Geometry of Reversible Shovel on Soil Disruption Abhinav Yadav 1* , Ajay Kumar Sharma 2 , Vipin Laddha 1 , Manpreet Singh 1 , Brajesh Kumar 3 and Anurag Yadav 4 1 FIMTTC, S. K. Rajasthan Agriculture University, Bikaner – 334006, India 2 CTAE, M. P. University of Agriculture & Technology, Udaipur – 313001, India 3 College of Agriculture Engineering & Technology, Etawah–206001, India 4 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel University of Agriculture and Technology, Meerut – 250110, India *Corresponding author ABSTRACT Introduction Agriculture is the most important sector of Indian Economy. Agriculture in India is unique in its characteristics having about 250 different crops cultivated in different agro climatic zones. Indian agriculture sector accounts for 18 per cent of India's gross domestic product (GDP) and provides employment to 50% of the countries workforce. Indian is an agriculture-based country, where more than 50% of population is depend on agriculture (Madhusudhan, 2015). Agriculture in India is currently growing at an average compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 2.8 per cent (Mehta et al., 2014). India's arable land area of 159.7 million hectares (394.6 million acres) is the second largest in the world, after the United States (Himani 2014). Agricultural engineering inputs have played an important role in increasing production through appropriate mechanization (Manchikanti and Sengupta, 2012). The total farm power availability in Indian agriculture was 2.24 kW/hain 2016-17. It had a share of 1.324, International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences ISSN: 2319-7706 Volume 9 Number 12 (2020) Journal homepage: http://www.ijcmas.com Reversible Shovels type furrow openers are simple in design and because of their simple low-cost construction; they are widely used in cultivator for opening the soil. The study was conducted on the soil disruption by tractor operated cultivator type reversible type furrow openers to improve soil conditions in sandy loam soil using four types of furrow openers at operational speed and depth of operation of (1.53,1.81)m/sec and (14,16)cm respectively. Tool T-4 gave more spoil furrow width, spoil furrow depth, crescent height, spoil area and trench area. Keywords Reversible shovel, Soil profiles, Crescent height, Spoil area, Trench area Accepted: 14 November 2020 Available Online: 10 December 2020 Article Info