Farm mechanization on crop productivity

Escalated food demands propelled by the ever increasing population demands for increase in crop production. But problems like labour shortages, high input costs and conventional farming practices makes agriculture economically unviable and resulted in its decline, especially in vulnerable communities of the developing world. Use of heavy machinery has been in the increase to tackle the problems of labour shortages but have adverse effects on environment due to soil compaction and the adverse effect on global warming owing to high fossil fuel use.

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The influence of different crop establishment methods and weed management practices on productivity and economics of rice was studied at College Farm, College of Agriculture, ANGRAU (Hyderabad) during the kharif season 2010 and 2011 in sandy loam soils. The experiment was laid out in split plot design and replicated thrice with three crop establishment methods i.e. direct sowing of sprouted seeds under puddled condition, SRI and transplanting as main plot treatments and four weed management practices i.e. bensulfuron methyl 60 g + pretilachlor 600 g a.

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Mechanization is important and useful as it takes place in almost every face of human endeavor to meet required target and to boost efficiency. This study was conducted to find the impact of the variables on the adoption of farm mechanization. Multi-stage random sampling technique was employed for selection of the 160 respondents.

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A study indicates that there is increase in area, production and productivity of major food crops in Jammu & Kashmir State of India over the years but the rate of increase has been slow. Jammu region of the State has maximum cropping intensity (176.8%) followed by Kashmir (123%) and Ladakh (106%). The average land holding in the State is very low (0.66 ha) in comparison to National Average (1.68 ha). The unit farm power availability on gross cropped area basis is 0.78 kW contributed 51.2% by animated (human and animal power) sources and 48.8% from rest of the sources.

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The present study was conducted in two districts of Upper Brahmaputra Valley Zone of Assam namely Jorhat and Majuli district in order to assess the socio-economic profile of flood affected farmers, their employment status and perception on flood impacts. A total of 160 farmers were selected from eight villages of two districts by following proportionate cum random sampling techniques. The findings reveal that majority of the respondents were in between 41-59 years of age with education level upto class VII standard and having 4-6 members in their family with average annual income Rs.7,339.

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Rice-Wheat cropping system pre-dominated in the India covering an area of about 10.5 million hectare. Adverse effect of continuous puddling in rice field forced scientists to search for other methods of rice establishment like direct seeding; machines transplanted and dry seeding with ZT machine and wheat by zero tillage etc. In a 3‐year study, we assessed the effects of crop establishment methods in participatory mode on farmers’ field through on farm on productivity and profitability in a rice–wheat (RW) system at Basti, Siddharthnagar and Gorakhpur district of U.P.

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Theimpactonthenaturalhabitatisofgreatconcernatpresent.Increasingdemandcouldforce thedestructionofnaturalhabitats,breedinggrounds,removalofwintercover,shelterbedsfor somespecies.Mechanizationofagriculturesawthedestructionofnests,burrows,etc.Similar impactbutwithgreaterintensitycanbeexpectedtoresultfromenergycropplantations. Extendingenergycropfarmingintounusable,non
agriculturallandcanhaveanegativeimpact on that particular eco system.

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Rice is the main crop grown in Indonesia, China, Thailand and many other Asian countries. In many places in the world, rice is the staple, or main, food. It is a plant that requires plenty of water and heat. It is well suited to the tropical climate of Indonesia. On Java, the rains are so plentiful that it is possible to grow three or more rice crops a year. In Bali, rice crops are planted twice each year.

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