TY - CONF
T1 - Cost saving rice transplanting technology for puddled and unpuddled soil condition
AU - Ashik-E-Rabbani, Muhammad
AU - Hossain, Mosharraf M.
AU - Sarkar, Surajit
AU - Saha, Chayan Kumer
AU - Alam, Monjurul M.
AU - Kalita, Prasanta Kumar
AU - Hansen, Alan C.
N1 - This paper as part of Appropriate Scale Mechanization Consortium (ASMC) project ‘‘Appropriate Scale Mechanization Innovation (ASMIH) - Bangladesh’’ is made possible by the support of the American People provided to the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Sustainable Intensification through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (Subaward Number: 2015 -06391 -06, Grant code: AB078). The contents are the sole responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of USAID or the United States Government.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - During the transplanting period shortage of labor is a common issue which increased the labor wage and overall production cost of rice in Bangladesh. Study was conducted during Boro and Aman season 2017 in Dumuria Upazila of Khulna district to compare transplanting cost of rice in puddled and unpuddled conditions. A four row walk behind type self-propelled rice transplanter was used for conducting the mechanical transplanting. Rice varieties, BRRI Dhan28 and BRRI Dhan39 were used during Boro and Aman seasos, respectively.. Seedling growing medium was clay on polythene mat for both the seasons. During transplanting, the age of the seedling was 30 days and average height of the seedling was 14 cm in Boro season. In Aman season, the age of the seedling was 18 days with average height of 15 cm. In unpuddled soil, land was prepared by applying herbicide 4 to 5 days before transplanting during Boro season. Weeding was performed manually as herbicides could not be applied due to standing water in Aman season. Puddled plots were tilled by power tiller. In Boro season, cost saving by mechanical transplanting was 14,789 BDT/ha and 16,619 BDT/ha in puddled soil and in unpuddled soil, respectively whereas in Aman season, it was 14,892 BDT/ha and 14,053BDT/ha in puddled soil and in unpuddled soil, respectively in comparison to traditional manual transplanting. Rice transplanter is therefore suitable to reduce cost of paddy production and meet the labor crisis problem during transplanting season.
AB - During the transplanting period shortage of labor is a common issue which increased the labor wage and overall production cost of rice in Bangladesh. Study was conducted during Boro and Aman season 2017 in Dumuria Upazila of Khulna district to compare transplanting cost of rice in puddled and unpuddled conditions. A four row walk behind type self-propelled rice transplanter was used for conducting the mechanical transplanting. Rice varieties, BRRI Dhan28 and BRRI Dhan39 were used during Boro and Aman seasos, respectively.. Seedling growing medium was clay on polythene mat for both the seasons. During transplanting, the age of the seedling was 30 days and average height of the seedling was 14 cm in Boro season. In Aman season, the age of the seedling was 18 days with average height of 15 cm. In unpuddled soil, land was prepared by applying herbicide 4 to 5 days before transplanting during Boro season. Weeding was performed manually as herbicides could not be applied due to standing water in Aman season. Puddled plots were tilled by power tiller. In Boro season, cost saving by mechanical transplanting was 14,789 BDT/ha and 16,619 BDT/ha in puddled soil and in unpuddled soil, respectively whereas in Aman season, it was 14,892 BDT/ha and 14,053BDT/ha in puddled soil and in unpuddled soil, respectively in comparison to traditional manual transplanting. Rice transplanter is therefore suitable to reduce cost of paddy production and meet the labor crisis problem during transplanting season.
KW - Cost saving
KW - Labor requirement
KW - Puddled
KW - Rice transplanter
KW - Unpuddled
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U2 - 10.13031/aim.201801043
DO - 10.13031/aim.201801043
M3 - Paper
AN - SCOPUS:85054161974
T2 - ASABE 2018 Annual International Meeting
Y2 - 29 July 2018 through 1 August 2018
ER -