Performance of No-Till Drill for Establishment of Rice and its Comparison with Drum Seeder and Conventional Method

Singh, Tarandeep

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“…Agricultural labourers have decreased from 70% in 1991 to 40% in 2018 [ 12 ] and the wage rates have increased from 180 Taka per day in 2010 to 397 Taka per day in 2018 [ 17 , 73 ]. However, during the peak time of transplanting and harvesting, there is an acute shortage of labour [ 74 , 75 ] which pushes the labour price to much higher than the usual price which inflates the cost of production and even reduces yields as farmers are forced to delay transplanting. In 2019, due to low price of rice and higher cost of labour, many farmers found that it is not cost-effective to harvest rice as the cost of harvest could be more than the price of the harvested rice [ 76 , 77 ].…”

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Yield, profitability, and prospects of irrigated Boro rice cultivation in the North-West region of Bangladesh

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The North-West (NW) region of Bangladesh is pivotal for the country’s agricultural development, mainly in producing irrigated Boro rice. However, increasing cost of irrigation water, fertilizers, labour and other inputs, and the spatio-temporal variation in actual yield, market price and profitability of rice, have added uncertainty to the sustainability of Boro rice cultivation. In this study, we evaluated the productivity, profitability, and prospect of Boro rice production using comprehensive field data collected directly from 420 farmers’ fields over two consecutive seasons (2015–16 and 2016–17), across seven geographically distributed locations in the NW region. We also analyzed the risk and return trade of popular Boro rice cultivars using Monte-Carlo simulation. The results show that there were significant (p≤0.05) variations in rice yield between sites, irrigation pump-types, and rice varieties, with Hybrid rice and BRRI dhan29 producing highest yields (6.0–7.5 t/ha). Due to different pricing systems, the cost of irrigation water varied from site to site and from year to year, but always comprised the highest input cost (20–25% of total production). The total paid-out cost, gross benefit, and gross income of rice significantly (p≤0.05) differed between sites, type of irrigation pumps, rice varieties, transplanting dates, and two cropping years. The variations in observed yield and profitability reveal considerable scope to improve rice production systems. Market variation in the price of rice affected overall profitability significantly. Probability and risk analysis results show that Minikit and BRRI dhan29 are the most stable varieties for yield and profitability. Hybrid rice, which has the maximum attainable yield among the cultivated rice varieties, also has the risk of negative net income. Based on the analysis, we discussed ways to improve yield and profitability and the prospect of Boro rice cultivation in the region. The study provides valuable information for policy-makers to sustain irrigated rice cultivation in both the NW region and nationally.

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Yield, profitability, and prospects of irrigated Boro rice cultivation in the North-West region of Bangladesh

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Optimizing the profits and enhancing productivity of rice through mechanization

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Sahu²,

Naik³

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:Paddy is the principal crop and the central plains of Chhattisgarh are known as rice bowl of central India. It is a labour intensive crop and requires about 800 to 900 labour-hours for cultivating one hectare of land. Of different field operations, seeding through seed drills, transplanting, weeding through mechanical weeder and harvesting together consume major labour force and if these are managed timely and efficiently by the farmers, could earns good profit. An experiment was conducted at Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Kanker to assess the performance of machines used in cultivation of rice. Different machines were evaluated for particular operations. For mechanical transplanting a self propelled rice planter and paddy seeding under wet conditions an eight row paddy drum seeder were used. For weeding manually operated weeder and self propelled paddy reaper for harvesting of paddy were also evaluated. An eight row self propelled paddy transplanter was found to be very effective for timely transplanting in a large area. Its average field capacity was 0.192 ha/hr and cost of transplanting almost 61 per cent less compared to manual transplanting. Use of manually operated 8 row drum seeder tested was most effective for line sowing of sprouted paddy in puddled condition. It reduces the cost of cultivation by saving 58 per cent seed compared to farmers practice. On the other hand, weed efficiency was found maximum 83.87 per cent with Ambika paddy weeder. It was observed that the average cost of mechanical transplanting with an eight row self propelled rice transplanter 74.71 %, mechanical weeding with ambica paddy weeder was 51.15 per cent and mechanical harvesting with a self propelled vertical conveyer reaper was 59.76 per cent less as compared to manual transplanting, weeding and harvesting operations, respectively.

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Performance of No-Till Drill for Establishment of Rice and its Comparison with Drum Seeder and Conventional Method

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Yield, profitability, and prospects of irrigated Boro rice cultivation in the North-West region of Bangladesh

Yield, profitability, and prospects of irrigated Boro rice cultivation in the North-West region of Bangladesh

Optimizing the profits and enhancing productivity of rice through mechanization

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