National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Weeds are the major reason for economic losses in paddy production. Despite advances made in weed control, they continue to cause serious crop losses. Presently in Eastern Madhya Pradesh, majorly weeding in machine transplanted paddy fields was done by manually operated touchi gurma which is labor-intensive and time-consuming. A self-propelled power unit is developed at the workshop of CAE, JNKVV, Jabalpur, powered by the Honda engine of 1.3 (hp) petrol engines. The objective of this research to do performance and evaluation of Touchi gurma with and without self-propelled power unit. It was found that the self-propelled power unit with Touchi gurmahas a field capacity of 0.0167ha/h with 91% weeding efficiency and 77.65 % field efficiency. Similarly, for manually operated Touchi gurma has afield capacity of 0.0099 ha/h with 81.49 % weeding efficiency and 80 % field efficiency. Among the two weeders, man-hours are required for a hectare field is59.35 man-h/ha for a self-propelled unit with a Touchi gurma as compared with a manually operated Touchi gurma i.e., 100.20 man-h/ha. The operational cost of weeding was maximum in manually operated Touchi gurma of 3131.25 Rs/ha as compared with self-propelled unit Touchi gurma of 1871.25 Rs/ha.
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