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Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding

Experiments were conducted to determine the field and economic performances of machines and techniques for crop establishment in lowland paddy available in Bangladesh. The work rate of random seeding by hand was found to be approximately 100 times faster than that of hand transplanting. On the other...

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Main Authors: Islam, Md. Syedul, Ahmad, Desa
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: Universiti Putra Malaysia 1999
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38753/1/38753.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.387532017-11-02T02:25:16Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38753/ Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding Islam, Md. Syedul Ahmad, Desa Experiments were conducted to determine the field and economic performances of machines and techniques for crop establishment in lowland paddy available in Bangladesh. The work rate of random seeding by hand was found to be approximately 100 times faster than that of hand transplanting. On the other hand, machine seeding was 10 times faster than machine transplanting. The partial budget analysis implied that a shift from manual transplanting to manual seeding incurred a net loss of US$30 per hectare. On the other hand, shifting from machine transplanting to machine seeding, the net loss was found to be US$27 per hectare. The partial budget analyses between mechanised and manual systems for transplanting showed a net benefit of US$13 per hectare. However, in the case of direct seeding, shifting from manual to the mechanised system earned a net benefit of US$53 per hectare. For crop establishment in lowland paddy, shifting from transplanting to seeding practice is not economically attractive to the farmers of Bangladesh at the present level of labour wage. However, shifting from traditional to the mechanised practice for transplanting and seeding operations were found profitable with the minimum uses of 1.8 ha and 0.3 ha respectively. Universiti Putra Malaysia 1999 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38753/1/38753.pdf Islam, Md. Syedul and Ahmad, Desa (1999) Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding. In: National Conference on Engineering Smart Farming for the Next Millenium, 14-16 Mar. 1999, UPM, Serdang, Selangor. .
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description Experiments were conducted to determine the field and economic performances of machines and techniques for crop establishment in lowland paddy available in Bangladesh. The work rate of random seeding by hand was found to be approximately 100 times faster than that of hand transplanting. On the other hand, machine seeding was 10 times faster than machine transplanting. The partial budget analysis implied that a shift from manual transplanting to manual seeding incurred a net loss of US$30 per hectare. On the other hand, shifting from machine transplanting to machine seeding, the net loss was found to be US$27 per hectare. The partial budget analyses between mechanised and manual systems for transplanting showed a net benefit of US$13 per hectare. However, in the case of direct seeding, shifting from manual to the mechanised system earned a net benefit of US$53 per hectare. For crop establishment in lowland paddy, shifting from transplanting to seeding practice is not economically attractive to the farmers of Bangladesh at the present level of labour wage. However, shifting from traditional to the mechanised practice for transplanting and seeding operations were found profitable with the minimum uses of 1.8 ha and 0.3 ha respectively.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Islam, Md. Syedul
Ahmad, Desa
spellingShingle Islam, Md. Syedul
Ahmad, Desa
Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding
author_facet Islam, Md. Syedul
Ahmad, Desa
author_sort Islam, Md. Syedul
title Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding
title_short Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding
title_full Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding
title_fullStr Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding
title_full_unstemmed Options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding
title_sort options for crop establishment techniques in lowland rice cultivation: transplanting vs direct seeding
publisher Universiti Putra Malaysia
publishDate 1999
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/38753/1/38753.pdf
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