TECHNO – ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF TRACTOR OPERATED RAISED BED PLANTERS AND SEED DRILLS FOR CULTIVATION OF WHEAT CROP
Journal Title: International Journal of Agricultural Science and Research (IJASR) - Year 2017, Vol 7, Issue 2
Abstract
A field experiment was conducted to evaluate performance of raised bed planters and seed cum-ferti-drill for cultivation of wheat crop in vertisol at research farm of J.N.K.V.V. Jabalpur (M.P.) during 2013-14. The field was arranged in two tillage levels as main treatment i.e. T1- 1×cultivator + 1×disc harrow and T2- 1×cultivator + 2×disc harrow and four sub-main treatment of sowing practices i.e. S1–raised bed planter with 120 cm wide bed and 5 rows per bed, S2–raised bed planter with 70 cm wide bed and 3 rows per bed, S3–raised bed planter with 125 cm wide and 5 rows per bed and S4–conventional seed-cum-fertilizer-drill and to validate it statistically split plot design was used. The field efficiency was found to be maximum in treatment S4-T2 (63.56%) and minimum in treatment S3-T1 (58.39%). The plant population, number of plants/meter length and plant height was found to be maximum in treatment S2-T2 (159 plants/m2, 33 plants/m length and 957.3 mm). The maximum grain yield was found in S2-T¬2 (49.5 q/ha) and minimum in S¬3-T1 (40.2 q/ha) treatment. The source wise energy consumption found to be minimum in treatment S1-T1 (12658.5MJ/ha) and maximum in treatment S1-T2 (14007.1MJ/ha). While operation wise energy consumption was observed minimum in treatment S4-T1 (5488.9MJ/ha) and maximum in treatment S1-T2 (5873.0MJ/ha). The sowing machine S2 gave the highest net return (66252.5Rs/ha). Therefore it can be concluded that sowing machine S2 performed better in view of field efficiency, crop attributes and crop yield when field was prepared by 1 x cultivator followed by 2 x disc harrows (T2).
Authors and Affiliations
PRATEEK SHRIVASTAVA, N. K. KHANDELWAL, DILIP JAT, BHAGWAN SINGH NARWARIYA
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