Increasing income of resource poor farmers in eastern Uttar Pradesh through improved planting techniques.

摘要

The experiments were conducted at farmers field in eastern UP on different tillage and planting techniques. The results indicated that the mechanical transplanting of rice by self propelled transplanted resulted in highest net return and BCR of Rs 25,799 per hectare and 2.25 respectively. Saving in fuel consumption and time was considerably high whereas equivalent energy was low in zero till drill sown and mechanically transplanted rice followed by drum seeder and hand transplanted rice. In wheat, sowing by zero till gave grain yield comparable to strip and roto till drill. However, the difference in net return was non significant in all the planting methods. The ridge-furrow planting of pigeonpea on ridges and rice in furrows produced a rice equivalent yield of 8,866 kg/ha (2,200 kg/ha of rice and 2,000 kg/ha of pigeonpea) compared to farmers practices of sole planting of rice (3,500 kg/ha) and sole planting of pigeonpea (5,944 kg/ha) under flat planting. Sowing by power tiller operated till planting machine followed by one manual weeding helped in saving Rs 2,500/ha. It resulted in 19.0 and 17.6% extra chickpea and lentil yield respectively.