Paddy transplanting is a highly labour intensive operation. To ease the transplanting work, research organizations have developed various types of rice transplanters. These equipments are primarily developed keeping men ...

The term ‘Pokkali’ used in the common parlor refers to a salt tolerant traditional rice cultivar grown in the coastal saline soils of Kerala, India. The Pokkali field is a unique eco-system prevailing in the coastal tract ...

Lime application is used to reduce the acidity of the soil and to enhance plant root for easy absorption of nutrients for better yield. Usually lime is being applied manually for all crops. In addition to the non-uniformity ...

Sowing accounts for 18.0 per cent of labour utilization in India which indicates that sowing of seeds is a highly labour-intensive operation. The major constraint in sowing is the non-availability of labour in time, ...

Coconut (Cocous nucifera L.) is one of the most prominent commercial crops in tropical and is usually referred as “tree of heaven”. The seed or the fruit of the coconut palm, which is also referred as coconut must be ...

Direct dry seeding is the most adopted method for upland rice cultivation in regions where water scarcity is a major issue. Generally, dry seeding includes the operations such as seedbed preparation, broadcasting of seeds ...

Ginger (Zingiber Officinale Roscoe) and Turmeric (Curcuma longa L.) are the oldest rhizome crops widely cultivated in India. These crops provide excellent opportunities in raising the income of farmers. This also provides ...

Rice is the crop that can be regarded as the foundation of the Indian food security, vital in meeting the goal of ensuring food for all. There are three principal methods of rice cultivation; dry seeding, wet seeding and ...

The harvesting of tuber crops is one of the serious bottlenecks in the tuber crop production value chain which requires immediate attention for developing appropriate mechanical harvesting technology. The conventional ...

A tractor-operated root crop harvester was developed by KAU especially for harvesting coleus, turmeric and ginger. The developed machine increased the yield and reduced the losses and damages caused to the tuber/ rhizome ...