MUMBAI, India, Jan. 23 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202531121750 A) filed by Icar-National Institute Of Secondary Agriculture, Ranchi, Jharkhand, on Dec. 4, for 'a vertical uprooting equipment for cinchona trees..'
Inventor(s) include Satish Chandra Sharma; Sanjay Kumar Pandey; Niranjan Prasad; and Abhijit Kar.
The application for the patent was published on Jan. 23, under issue no. 04/2026.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The present invention relates to a vertical uprooting equipment configured for mechanized uprooting of cinchona trees in hilly terrains to eliminate manual uprooting process. The uprooting equipment of this invention is a light weight and portable with specialized mechanized system tailored for efficient and sustainable uprooting operations, having detachable portable vertical frame structure with two side legs and one top horizontal base structure supported at each end on side legs and fastened through hitch pin, hydraulic system, power pack and light weight petrol fuelled genset operable byforest manpower. The equipment is easily carried and erected at site and the uprooting is simple to perform by application of hydraulic force via the vertically disposed hydraulic cylinder with reciprocating rammounted on frame structure,with operable connection to the hydraulic power pack. The vertical uprooting equipment through mechanized process enhances the productivity of uprooting cinchona trees (about 32 trees/day within 8 hours), thereby saving substantial cost of such mechanized uprooting activity over conventional tedious time consuming manual method."
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