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 |
Jute crop is one of the important cash crop grown in the south Asian countries. Among fibre crops, jute comes next to the cotton for making textile. Based on the physical and morphological characteristics of jute seed and agronomical requirement, a manually operated seed drill was designed and fabricated. Fourteen seed metering orifices are provided on each seed dispenser at equal interval of 27.4mm to achieve plant to plant distance 50-70 mm and row spacing 250 mm as per the field requirement, the laboratory calibration of seed drill was performed with average seed rate of 2.39 kg/ha. No mechanical damage of the seed was observed. The field trials reveal that the seed drill was performed well and found suitable for the small and marginal jute farmers. The effective field capacity was varied from 0.162ha/h to 0.176 ha/h.
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