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Coffee being one of the commercial crops is quite labour intensive. Throughout the year it needs to be maintained by couple of procedures like Pruning, Manuring, Coffee plucking, Coffee drying. Coffee pulping etc. Manuring process basically involves cleaning of dead leaves, sticks, and other waste materials which are fallen on the ground around the coffee plant stem. It also involves removing unwanted plants around it. So as to make the absorption process easier and plant root receive maximum manure content. Manuring is basically carried out twice in a year that is in the month of June and August. On an average it requires 8-9 men to complete the work of manuring of one acre coffee plantation in 2 days which on an average costs rupees 6500/- a year per acre. The traditional method involves removal of material (dead sticks etc.) around the coffee plant stem by using a shovel, then the labour put the manure using his hands. This machine focuses on doing cleaning and manuring work simultaneously. Thereby reducing the time to perform manuring by traditional method to almost 1/4 on an average. It is also affordable for poor farmers, easy to handle, and safer. Even the maintenance is also easy which drastically increases the profit of the farmers.