Dr.A.P.Mohan Kumar

@tnau.ac.in

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR(FARM MACHINERY) & Dept. of Farm Machinery and Power Engineering
Tamil Nadu Agricultural University

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Engineering, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Multidisciplinary
228

Scholar Citations

8

Scholar h-index

6

Scholar i10-index

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Development and Performance Evaluation of the Neem Fruit Winnower
    GT Selvi, B Suthakar, A Surendrakumar, R Kavitha, P Masilamani, ...
    Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 48 (2), 318-329 , 2026
    2026
  • Economic sustainability and energy efficiency of irrigated urdbean [Vigna mungo] under different sowing methods and weed management practices
    MAP Anitta FS, Senthamizhselvan S, Raju M
    Plant Sci. Today 12 (Sp1), 1-5 , 2025
    2025
  • Development of Mini Tractor Operated Hydraulic Powered Sugarcane Leaf De-trasher
    APM Kumar, R Kavitha, R Thiyagarajan, A Surendrakumar
    Sugar Tech 27 (4), 1056-1065 , 2025
    2025
  • Optimization of Blade Geometry in Air Assisted Sprayer Fans Using Computational Fluid Dynamics
    R Thiyagarajan, D Chandana, P Dhananchezhiyan, APM Kumar, ...
    Journal of Scientific Research and Reports 31 (6), 1219-1233 , 2025
    2025
  • Smart mechanization of tapioca planting: Integrating AI and advanced technologies
    AP Mohankumar, R Kavitha, A Surendrakumar, V Sivakumar
    Plant Science Today 12, 8234 , 2025
    2025
  • Drones Over Fields: Harnessing UAV Technology for Precision Farming
    APM Kumar, P Rajesh, R Kavitha, R Thiyagarajan, D Yallappa
    Digital Farming and Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Future, 206-221 , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • 206 Drones Over Fields: Harnessing UAV Technology for Precision Farming
    APM Kumar, P Rajesh, R Kavitha, R Thiyagarajan, D Yallappa
    Digital Farming and Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Future, 206-221 , 2025
    2025
  • Turmeric planting methods and mechanization strategies: A review towards the development of a fully automatic planter
    S Vishal, R Kavitha, B Suthakar, AP Mohankumar, V Rajasree, ...
    2025
  • A study on droplet deposition of nano DAP using unmanned aerial hybrid sprayer on peanut (Arachis hypogaea) crop
    P Rajesh, AP Mohankumar, R Kavitha, B Suthakar, A Surrendrakumar, ...
    The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences 95 (4) , 2025
    2025
    Citations: 1
  • Response of summer irrigated black gram (Vigna mungo L.) to planting method and weed management methods under western agro-climatic zones of Tamil Nadu
    AP Senthamizhselvan, S., Anitta, F. S., Raju, M., Babu, R. P. V., & Mohankumar
    Plant Science Today 12 (1), 1-5 , 2025
    2025
  • Improving Agricultural Spraying with Multi-Rotor Drones: A Technical Study on Operational Parameter Optimization
    D YALLAPPA, R Kavitha, A Surendrakumar, B Suthakar, AP Mohan, ...
    Frontiers in Nutrition 11, 1487074 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 15
  • Downwash airflow distribution pattern of hexa-copter unmanned aerial vehicles
    Yallappa D, Kavitha R, Surendrakumar A, Balaji K, Suthakar B, Mohan Kumar A ...
    Int J Agric & Biol Eng. 17 (4), 24-34 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Mechanization Challenges in Selected Distinct Agricultural Systems in India
    S Rathinavel, R Kavitha, AP Mohankumar, B Suthakar, A Surendrakumar
    Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 46 (9), 122-129 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Optimizing the impact of spray characteristics of hybrid drone on spray deposition in cotton crops
    P.Rajesh, A. P.Mohankumar, R.Kavitha, B.Suthakar & K.Ganesan
    CURRENT SCIENCE 127 (NO. 3), 297-306 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Comparative analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle and conventional spray systems for the maize fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera; Noctuidae) management
    Plant Protect. Sci. 60 (2), 181-192 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 11
  • Stability Analysis of Tractor Mounted Hydraulic Operated Ladder Using FEM
    R.Thiyagarajan,A.Tajuddin,B.Suthakar, A.P.Mohan Kumar
    AGRICULTURAL MECHANIZATION IN ASIA, AFRICA AND LATIN AMERICA 55 (1), 43-49 , 2024
    2024
  • Seed pelleting technique for mechanized sowing in green gram [Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek]
    GS K. Raja1, V. Alex Albert, B. Venudevan, P. Mohan Kumar
    Legume Research- An International Journal, 1-5 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 2
  • Pioneering Challenges: Exploring Multifaceted Obstacles in Agricultural Mechanization in Tamil Nadu, India
    PS Abirami , S., Jaisridhar , P., Kumar , A. P. M., Sheela , M. S., & Ganapati
    International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 13 (10), 3745–3753 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • Does groundnut mechanization improve the energy use efficiency and productivity of groundnut?
    APMKBK M Arivazhagan, C Harisudan, R Baskaran
    The Pharma Innovation Journal 12 (10), 253-256 , 2023
    2023
  • Studies on Rheological Properties of 3D Printable Millet Based Dough
    RRAPMK J. Sanuujabertini , M. Balakrishnan , S. Parveen
    Biological Forum – An International Journal 15 (7), 10-14 (2023) , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Study on Spray Deposition and Drift Characteristics of UAV Agricultural Sprayer for Application of Insecticide in Redgram Crop ( Cajanus cajan L. Millsp. )
    Y Dengeru, K Ramasamy, S Allimuthu, S Balakrishnan, APM Kumar, ...
    Agronomy 12 (12), 3196 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 55
  • Development of ergo refined coconut tree climbing device
    AP Mohankumar, DA Krishnan, K Kathirvel
    African journal of agricultural research 8 (44), 5530-5537 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 36
  • Optimization of continuous flow pulsed light system process parameters for microbial inactivation in tender coconut water, pineapple and orange juice
    P Preetha, N Varadharaju, G Jeevarathinam, J Deepa, APM Kumar, ...
    Journal of Food Process Engineering, e14254 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 17
  • Improving Agricultural Spraying with Multi-Rotor Drones: A Technical Study on Operational Parameter Optimization
    D YALLAPPA, R Kavitha, A Surendrakumar, B Suthakar, AP Mohan, ...
    Frontiers in Nutrition 11, 1487074 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 15
  • Influence of the downwash airflow in Hexacopter Drone on the spray distribution pattern of boom sprayer
    D Yallappa, R Kavitha, A Surendrakumar, B Suthakar, APM Kumar, ...
    J. Appl. Nat. Sci 15 (1), 391-400 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 14
  • Comparative analysis of unmanned aerial vehicle and conventional spray systems for the maize fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda (J.E. Smith) (Lepidoptera; Noctuidae) management
    Plant Protect. Sci. 60 (2), 181-192 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 11
  • Extraordinary discovery in Bihar, India: an apparent White-eared Night Heron Gorsachius magnificus in Valmiki Tiger Reserve
    S Shafi, KK Maurya, P Chanchani, S Chandrashekar, A Kumar, G Ojha, ...
    Birding Asia 29, 9-10 , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 9
  • Pioneering Challenges: Exploring Multifaceted Obstacles in Agricultural Mechanization in Tamil Nadu, India
    PS Abirami , S., Jaisridhar , P., Kumar , A. P. M., Sheela , M. S., & Ganapati
    International Journal of Environment and Climate Change 13 (10), 3745–3753 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • Effect of downwash airflow distribution of multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle on spray droplet deposition characteristics in rice crop
    D Yallappa, R Kavitha, A Surendrakumar, B Suthakar, AP Kumar, ...
    Curr. Sci 125, 172-182 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 8
  • Downwash airflow distribution pattern of hexa-copter unmanned aerial vehicles
    Yallappa D, Kavitha R, Surendrakumar A, Balaji K, Suthakar B, Mohan Kumar A ...
    Int J Agric & Biol Eng. 17 (4), 24-34 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Performance Evaluation of a Power Operated Wetland Weeders for Paddy
    NKS Kumar, AP Mohankumar
    International Journal of Current Microbiology and Applied Sciences 8 (04 … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 6
  • Importance of micropropagation in pineapple for disease free plantlets and rapid multiplication
    MD Shamin, M Kumar, T Ranjan, R Ranjan, A Kumar, P Kumar, V Kumar, ...
    J. Pharmacogn. Phytochem 5, 359-362 , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 5
  • Performance evaluation of cone penetrometer device for measuring the subsoil compaction in mulched plots
    R Thiyagarajan, GC Jayashree, AP Mohankumar, P Vijayakumary
    International Journal of Agricultural and Biological Engineering 6 (3), 19-27 , 2013
    2013
    Citations: 5
  • Phenotypic stability in garlic ( Allium sativum L.).
    A Kumar, B Prasad, BC Saha, RP Sinha, KR Maurya
    1994
    Citations: 5
  • Optimizing the impact of spray characteristics of hybrid drone on spray deposition in cotton crops
    P.Rajesh, A. P.Mohankumar, R.Kavitha, B.Suthakar & K.Ganesan
    CURRENT SCIENCE 127 (NO. 3), 297-306 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Biodiversity and Pollution Status of Masanjore Reservoir (South Bihar) in Relation to Certain Abiotic Factors
    A Kumar, RNR Singh
    ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENT AND CONSERVATION 4, 139-144 , 1998
    1998
    Citations: 4
  • Seasonal trends in biological and physico-chemical properties of a fish pond of Dumka (Bihar)
    A Kumar
    Acta Ecol 16, 50-57 , 1994
    1994
    Citations: 4
  • Mechanization Challenges in Selected Distinct Agricultural Systems in India
    S Rathinavel, R Kavitha, AP Mohankumar, B Suthakar, A Surendrakumar
    Journal of Experimental Agriculture International 46 (9), 122-129 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 3
  • Optimization of parameters of designed and developed hand-held electrostatic sprayer and its performance evaluation for herbal pesticides
    MK Patel, A Kumar, P Kumar, A Jangra, A Kumar
    Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1322 (1), 012024 , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 3
  • Seed pelleting technique for mechanized sowing in green gram [Vigna radiata (L.) R. Wilczek]
    GS K. Raja1, V. Alex Albert, B. Venudevan, P. Mohan Kumar
    Legume Research- An International Journal, 1-5 , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 2