Raising mat type nursery for mechanical paddy transplanters

摘要

Paddy is the main cereal crop of Punjab during kharif season. Around 75.0 lakh acres are under paddy cultivation in Punjab. Due to Novel COVID-19 pandemic, labour shortage would be an issue during rice transplanting season and also the transplanting window period is small. Mechanical transplanting is _ one of the solutions to labour shortage problem and timely transplanting. This also helps the farmers to get higher yield and timely transplanting. There will be an employment generation of 30-40 daysin a year also, ifwe run paddy transplanters on custom hiring basis. To solve the higher cost of machinery problem, machines should be run on custom hiring or co-operative basis. With this concept, small, marginal and medium farmers will be benefited with the availabilityof machinery. The payback period of these paddy transplanting machines varies from 2-3 years. The mat type nursery is required for mechanical paddy transplanters.The material required for raising mat type nursery is iron frames, 50-60 gauge polythene sheet, sprinkler can, manual jandra and small wooden slab.Mechanical transplanting is one of the solutions to labour shortage problem and timely transplanting. The mat type nursery is required for mechanical paddy transplanters. The mat type nursery can be raised on polythene sheets or in trays.