The Tale of a Paddy Seed Transplanter

Ever wondered what journey a simple but elegant machine goes through before it smoothly lands into your backyard??? Well that's something even I never bothered about until I came to SELCO as a intern. There was this simple paddy transplanter that was in the lab waiting to enter the fields. It had come a long way from China into the humble town, Ujire and finally it enters the SELCO Labs. Well this is just the beginning of the journey for this smart looking machine. Then comes a plan to take out the machine to the paddy fields for testing on 24th January. Why testing ? To find out whether the machine is serving the purpose i.e whether it is planting the seedlings, to find out whether it runs smoothly on the fields, to find out what the farmers think about the machine and their level of interest in the product. So, as planned the machine sets out in a share auto, through the bumpy roads of Diduppe, a small lush green village in Ujire. It makes it's way, battling every obstacle and lands on the field like a warrior, ready for the ultimate showdown. The field is set, the engineer then puts the paddy seedlings into the machine, slowly turns the knob and starts moving it on the empty, wet field. The machine showed an initial hitch. But then after some adjustments . .. Alas !!! Its working perfectly !!! The warrior finally wins half the battle. The machine is moved and slowly you see the entire field filled with seedlings planted by the machine.
                                      Me, being an IT engineering student, trying my hands on the transplanter was an amazing experience.I tried the tradition method of planting and then tried the machine, the machine really seems to be a winner here- much easier to use and much less labor required. Finally after a days work, the machine gets certified as a true warrior.
It still needs to be tested in many fields before it is available for purchase. After all it is a machine that will help a small scale farmer and needs to go through the tough tests to prove that it is as good as the farmer who can then show off his cool machine !!!!