Field capacity and economical study of self-propelled rice transplanting machine

Abstract

Manual method of seed planting, results in low seed placement, spacing efficiencies and serious back ache for the farmer which limits the size of field that can be planted. The cost price of imported planters has gone beyond the purchasing power of most of our farmers. Peasant farmers can do much to increase food production especially grains, if drudgery can be reduced or totally removed from their planting operations. To achieve the best performance from a seed planter, the above limits are to be optimized by proper design and selection of the components required on the machine to suit the needs of crops. Need of rice transplanter machine is growing now a days because it unique features seeding in well sequence and in well manner. Seeding by rice trans-planter saves too much efforts of human being. Class of people who uses this kind of machines is farmers and they are having poor economic background. This paper provides case study self-propelled rice transplanting machine in rice growing area of Madhya Pradesh. Rice is very labour intensive crop. Input cost is increasing day by day due to increase in cost of labour, fertilizer, seed, insecticide and other critical inputs. The study was carried out with more than 25 farmers adopting rice transplanter machine. Farmers of the rice growing area selling their produce to government cooperative society at Minimum Support Price. Benefit cost ratio in traditional rice transplanting is about 1.88 to 1.8 but mechanical method it increases up to 2.22:1.