Paddy farmers

The present paper provides a case study of rice farmers in the Muda granary area, which covers the states of Kedah and Perlis, using primary data to identify the factors on the adoption of PEP among farmers. The research findings indicate that the key factors determining the farmers’ adoption of the PEP are age, secondary jobs, effective communication with the extension agency, increased rice yield, lower operating cost, lower working time in the fields, and support services, such as assistance, incentives, and facilities from the government.

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"Rice harvest failure risk analysis using extreme value theory based on weather index as information supply chain for agricultural business" discusses the formulation of a risk model for paddy agricultural insurance in Indonesia. Indonesia as an agricultural country with a tropical climate, where the sun shines throughout its time, farmers can plant crops throughout the season. In particular, rice farming is currently an inseparable part of most agrarian societies in Indonesia, especially in West Java.

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The ability of farmers in the village's economic life is very varied and tends to be in a weak position, especially in terms of saving skills. This study aims to determine the influence of socioeconomic factors on the ability to save, pull, and push elements of farmers to keep and resource savings fund farmers. This research is a case study in Deli Serdang Regency, North Sumatera, where 60 people from 312 populations of paddy rice farmers were sampled purposively.

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This study explores the driving factors for farmers in sustainable paddy farming in Malaysia. The research is exploratory in nature, using interview and observation approaches. Three sustainability factors are focused in this study; namely the economic, social, and environmental dimensions. The results indicate that early exposure and knowledge, education and experience in sustainable agriculture are the driving force behind shifting attitudes towards sustainable agriculture and sustaining practices.

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A policy of high rice prices can increase paddy farm incomes but also cause a rise in rice expenditures for farm households. Such a policy is needed to stimulate production but can harm rice consumers, especially poor families. We surveyed 284 paddy farmers in Gantar Sub-District, Indramayu Regency, Indonesia to analyze the impact of increasing rice prices on farmers’ net incomes, including poor paddy farmers. We found that a price increase benefits farmer if the price transmission elasticity is more than 0.2 for non-poor paddy farmers or 0.6 for poor paddy farmers.

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Ebook "Social-ecological restoration in paddydominated landscapes (Ecological research monographs series)" aims to do so by incorporating various disciplines of natural and social sciences. Strategies for sustainable agriculture are reviewed, including financial incentives for farmers and the use of flagship wildlife species such as the crested ibis (toki) to promote ecological restoration. With the increasing popularity of environmentally friendly rice farming in parts of Asia and the western United States, this book offers model cases for sustainable management of paddy-dominated landscapes.

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The results of resreach showed that rice areas were not distributed relatively uniform in all districts and the rice yield had average level when compared with the other rice cultivation areas. Rice yields in Thai Nguyen province sharply increased from 4.87 tons/ha (2010) to 5.49 tons/ha (2020) with the slightly decreasing the rice areas, it is proved that the farmer was not concerned to increase the planting areas while they focused on rising the yield potential and quality.

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TNAU Paddy expert system is a mobile app for paddy that covers cultivation practices, nursery management, irrigation, crop nutrition, pest and disease management, harvest and postharvest technologies, schemes and marketing information and also it provide advisories to the farmers. This paddy expert system was developed by mobile seva and released on January 24, 2017.

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In Karnataka Mandya district is one of the important paddy growing area. Mono cropping, faulty cultivation practices with continuous submerged conditions are causing higher pest and disease incidence and leading to lower yield. In this context KrishiVigyana Kendra, Mandya demonstrated integrated pest and disease management practices in 30 farmer’s field. The objectives of the study were to minimize the use of chemical pesticides and to establish the use of eco-friendly management practices.

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The present study was conducted in Andhra Pradesh with the objective to assess the economic impact of Farmers’ Field Schools (FFSs). The total sample size was 240 comprising 120 FFS farmers and 120 non-FFS farmers selected through random sampling method from three districts of Andhra Pradesh. The double difference method was used by analysing change in performance before and after the programme for FFS farmers to the change in performance over the same period for non-FFS farmers unaffected by the programme. The farmers were interviewed by using a structured interview schedule.

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The present study was carried out in Davanagere district of Karnataka state during the year 2018-19 to know theextent of Adoption of Paddy Seed Production Practices by the farmers of Davanagere district. A total sample consisting of 120 respondents from four major paddy seed producing taluks of the district were selected wherein three villages from each taluk and ten farmers from each village were interviewed using pre-tested interview schedule.

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An on –farm trial was conducted on various farmers field in different villages of Araria district during financial year 2016-17. This trail was conducted to overcome weed infestation during cultivation of chilli in farmers field. It leads to reduction in yield; quality of produce is inferior as compared to better quality produce, increased the cost of cultivation due to manual hand weeding by laborers and reduced the benefit cost ratio. The trial was conducted in randomized block design with three treatments and ten replications.

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Paddy is a major cereal crop of India and Karnataka. In Chamarajanagara district, majority of it is grown under Kabini command area covering Yalandur, Kollegala and Chamarajanagara taluks. Paddy farmers of the area are cultivating IR 64 variety which is very old, poor yielding under salt affected soil conditions and susceptible to major diseases. In order to enhance the yield at farmers level, a new variety GGV–05–01 (Gangavathi Sona) released by UAS Raichur, a salt tolerant variety...

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Manual harvesting of paddy is more time consuming and has become a costly operation. Hence there is a need for mechanization of harvesting, at present the available machinery for harvesting are large in size and expensive and are not reaching the small scale farmers. The rotary type cutting mechanism has been developed with the proper transmission system by using the knapsack power sprayer engine as a prime source.

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Agriculture is the most important sector in the Indian economy. It also plays a significant role in sustaining the security of livelihood for the country's millions of farmers. An expert system (ES) is a computer programme that is designed to emulate the logic and reasoning processes that an expert would use to solve a problem in his/her field of expertise, using artificial intelligence technology. The present study explored the constraints faced by paddy farmers and suggestions for effective utilization of paddy expert system app.

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The study was conducted in Hosanagara taluk of Shivamogga district in Karnataka state during the year 2019-20 to study the knowledge and adoption of paddy cultivation practices of farmers in paddy crop. A total of 120 respondents were randomly selected based on paddy cultivation area.

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The present study on economic analysis of soil health cards on production and productivity of major crops was conducted in Karnataka state with the focus on North Eastern Karnataka region. However the study area was confined to Raichur district as it is having the major area under paddy (21.01%) growing area in this region. Where in the primary data was collected by interviewing the farmers.

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The present study aims to estimate the marketable and marketed surplus of paddy and to identify the factors influencing them. Required primary data were collected through interview method from 40 paddy farmers in Ambasamudram block of Tirunelveli district. To identify the factors influencing marketable and marketed surplus, multiple regression technique was employed.

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The field experiments were conducted in the farmers field under the jurisdiction of the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) Raichur during the kharif 2015 and kharif 2016 using randomized complete block design with 7 treatments to determine the effects Land levelling and its temporal variability under different levelling, cultivation practices and irrigation methods for paddy.

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Water saving by innovative techniques is essential to prevent salinity and land degradation in paddy production. Therefore, the field investigations were conducted in the farmer’s field under the jurisdiction of the University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS) Raichur during the kharif 2015 and kharif 2016 using randomized complete block design (RCBD) with 7 treatments to determine water requirement of Paddy under different levelling, cultivation practices and irrigation methods for paddy production.

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