Vol. 2 (1) : January-February 2011 issue
Green Farming Vol. 2 (1) : 73-75 (January-February, 2011) (New Series)
Performance evaluation of animal drawn seeder for rice- cum-green manure crop for biasi cultivation system
J.S. NIKHADE1* and S.M., NAGE2
Faculty of Agricultural Engineering, I.G. Krishi Vishwavidyalaya, Krushak Nagar, Raipur (Chattisgarh) AICRP on RES, Dr. P.D. Krishi Vidyapeeth, Akola - 444 104 (M.S.)
Designation : 1Assistant Professor, 2Senior Technical Assistant *Correspondence
Subject : Agriculture Engineering, Farm Machinery, Energy & Power and Process Engineering
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J.S. NIKHADE and S.M. NAGE. 2011. Performance evaluation of animal drawn seeder for rice-cum-green manure crop for biasi cultivation system. Green Farming Vol. 2 (1) : 73-75 (January-February, 2011) (New Series)
ABSTRACT
Biasi is a kind of intercultural operation in rice for control of weeds. It is an age-old practice followed by farmers in direct dry seeded rice. The farmers generally intercultivated the rice field by local wooden plough in standing water (100-250 mm depth at 30-45 days after emergence). The developed rice-cum-green manure crop seeder for biasi cultivation system tested in laboratory as well as in the field. It was observed that the mechanical damage of seeds due to metering was 0.47 % for rice (IR-36) and that for green manure seed was 0.079%. The effective field capacity of seeder was found to be 0.057 ha h-1 and field efficiency was found to be 76 %. The cost of operation included the hire charges of a pair of bullocks with operator was `368 ha-1. The seed emergence was found to be 88 % and 84 % for rice and green manure respectively.
Key words :
Biasi, Oryza sativa, rice, green manure, seeder.
