Different types of resource conservation technology (RCT) in wheat cultivation have been recently introduced and use of seed cum fertilizer zero till drill machine is one of them which was used in eastern terai region in wheat season of 2006/2007. A survey was carried out to study the productivity of wheat and compare the production between traditional and RCT method of cultivation. Altogether 31 farmers were interviewed with semi-structured questionnaires. Model used to estimate the productivity for both the methods was significant (p < 0.01) which explained 96 and 97 per cent variation due to independent variables under study in wheat production of traditional and RCT method, respectively. Farmers used 160 kg seed/ha in traditional method while in RCT method it was 122 kg/ha. Similarly, they applied 148 and 137 kg nutrients as a total of nitrogen, phosphorus and potash in traditional and RCT method, respectively. Average production of wheat grain in traditional and RCT method was 2456 and 2714 kg/ha giving average gross margin of Rs 16750.00 and Rs 23301.00/ha, respectively. This revealed 10 per cent reduction in total costs and 29 per cent increase in return by RCT method.Nepal Agric. Res. J. Vol. 9, 2009, pp. 99-108DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/narj.v9i0.11647
Wheat is the third most important crop after rice and maize both in area and production which is generally sown in November-December and harvested in March-April in Nepal. The area production and productivity of wheat in 2016-17 reached to 0.73 million ha, 1.88 million tone and 2554 kg ha-1 from 70648.00 ha, 1.57million tone and 225.00 kg ha-1 in 2007-08 (Anonymous, 2018a, 2018b). Food insecurity in Nepal is a major problem with more than two third of the districts facing food deficit every year (Joshi et al., 2012). Wheat contributes about 20% of the total cereal production in Nepal. Over 60% of wheat is produced in the Terai (plain) region, though they are also produced in the mid hills and high hills regions of Nepal (Timsina et al., 2018). Devkota and Phuyal (2015) found significant positive impact of the average and maximum temperature and significant negative impact of the minimum temperature on net revenue
Agriculture is the mainstay of Nepalese economy which contributes almost one third of the national economy (Anonymous, 2017a). Agricultural crop productivity in Nepal is lowest among South Asian countries (Anonymous, 2018a). The agricultural sector production during 2017-18 was increased by 2.7% which has been estimated as 5.1% in 2018-19 (Anonymous, 2019). Rice is the agricultural commodity with the third highest worldwide production (Rice, 741.5 million tones, in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tones) and maize 1.0 billion tones (Anonymous, 2017). During the year 2016-17, rice contributed 44.66% to total edible cereal grain production in the country (Anonymous, 2018b). The area increment of rice in 2016-17 over 2007-08 has been counted as only 0.21% while in production and productivity the increment is 21.66 and 21.41%, respectively. The rice in Nepal is transplanted by human labor and animal traction (Upadhyaya, 1996). Using traditional bullocks and
Agriculture is the mainstay of Nepalese economy which contributes almost one third of the national economy (Anonymous, 2017a). Agricultural crop productivity in Nepal is lowest among South Asian countries (Anonymous, 2018a). The agricultural sector production during 2017-18 was increased by 2.7% which has been estimated as 5.1% in 2018-19 (Anonymous, 2019). Rice is the agricultural commodity with the third highest worldwide production (Rice, 741.5 million tones, in 2014), after sugarcane (1.9 billion tones) and maize 1.0 billion tones (Anonymous, 2017). During the year 2016-17, rice contributed 44.66% to total edible cereal grain production in the country (Anonymous, 2018b). The area increment of rice in 2016-17 over 2007-08 has been counted as only 0.21% while in production and productivity the increment is 21.66 and 21.41%, respectively. The rice in Nepal is transplanted by human labor and animal traction (Upadhyaya, 1996). Using traditional bullocks and
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