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Batch 2017-2021
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Product Design

Batch 2017-2021
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Agricultural Tool Redesign, Thoomba
by Jake V. Abraham
Growing your own crops is a good action from our part. To do this, you need tools. Tools for planting, maintenance, harvesting, and storing it. During one of such harvest processes, I came across a hurdle. We were using a long pole sickle to pluck fruits, and the home-made tool was not enough as the trees were too tall. Increasing the height meant much heavier weight and that was not a suitable solution. This led me to want to create a tool for harvesting fruits irrespective of the tree height. When I started researching about this, I came across an entrepreneur who had the same idea as e and created what I had envisioned and made it much better. This led me to look into other agricultural and farming tools, and the thoomba (a Kerala shovel) caught my eye. We had an assortment of thoombas at my home and nearby houses. All of them happen to be quite old, ranging from 10 to 30 years or older, and were usable due to handwork maintenance. Inspired by the redesigning of the long pole sickle, I decided to redesign the thoomba to make it last longer in better conditions while improving it.
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