Design And Construction Of Portable Storage For Perishable Product

1.3 Aim and Objective
AIMS: The aim of this project was to develop a motorized chopping machine for the cutting of various grasses to carry out performance evaluation of the machine.
(i)    To reduce the size of forage for the animal consumption
(ii)    To mechanize the process of livestock feed production both for direct consumption and stores purposes.
(iii)    To make feed stuff available in the dry season.
(iv)    To provide sufficient roughages as major component for animal feed preparation which can be enriched with protein, vitamins and mineral matter.
(v)    To reduce the labour involved in cutting the forage crop and some crop stovers.
(vi)    To replace the use of traditional crude tools for cutting forage crop such as matchete, cutlass, sickle e.t.c.
(vii)    To save time.
1.4    Scope of Study
The scope of the project is to develop and test for performance of the chopper which would be useful for normadic Fulanis and pastoralist.
(i)    To carry out a literature review on forage and forage chopper in existence.
(ii)    To obtain some data or information that will be required and that are suitable in the development and performance test of forage chopper.
(iii)    To select suitable materials based on result of the analysis for the construction of the machine.
(iv)     To prepare a neat detailed working drawing for the development process.
(v)    To discuss the results of the performance test.
(vi)    To present the necessary information on the machine.