Dear Seema / Priya :
It was nice to read your article in today’s Times of
India, where you write :
“ One promising technology is Happy Seeder . Coupled with a spreader, it deposits the mulched
rice residue around the seed in one simple operation “
In this regard , you may want to read my following
blog
With Regards,
hemen
parekh / Mumbai
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Source for the following info : Hindustan Times / 10 Nov }
“
For farmers in Punjab, it’s a 20 million tonne-a-year issue “
Extract
:
· About 3
million acres are cultivated for paddy in Punjab and 20 million tonnes of stubble are generated every year
· Harvesters skim from the top and leave
80 % of the paddy plant – 6” to 8” long – on the field
· Since farmers need to sow wheat within a fortnight of harvesting paddy,
they burn the straw , or paraali , to save time, labour and money
· As per Manjeet Singh Makkar ( Head ,
Farm Machinery and Power Engineering Department , Punjab Agricultural
University ) , following are three solutions :
# Straw Chopper –
cum- Spreader
This machine chops the stubble and mixes
it in the soil either with the help of
water or a rotavator
# Straw
Management System and a “ Happy Seeder “
It cuts the straw into small pieces and
scatters it evenly . Next , a Happy Seeder
mounted on a tractor can be used to sow Wheat and put the cut straw over the
area
as mulch, which improves soil fertility . The two machines cost Rs 1.25 lakhs
# A Baler ,
which bales the straw .
These can be used in power plants or
card-board factories
“ Given a choice between a box of
match-sticks and machinery worth Rs
2 lakhs , what will you choose ? “ , asked Billa
Singh , a farmer in Phagwara
Now consider this :
· Between harvesting paddy and sowing
wheat, there is a 15 day window
· One pair of machines ( described above )
can work 6 / 7 acres/day
· That is 100 acres in 15 days ( with one
pair )
· Paddy Stalk needs to be removed from 30
lakh acres, in 15 days
· That means , Punjab needs 30,000 pairs
of machines ( for 15 days )
· One pair costs Rs 2 lakhs
· So , 30,000
pairs will cost Rs 60,000 lakhs ( Rs 600 crores )
· In Maharashtra , nearly 80 lakh farmers
will get farm-loan waiver amounting to Rs 34,000 crores
· In UP , 12 lakh farmers got farm-loan
waiver of Rs 36,000 crore
· Who can believe that Shri Amrinder Singhji
( CM – Punjab ) cannot find Rs 600 crore to create a FARM HELP SPV , which will own those
30,000 machines and let farmers rent out @ Rs 10 / day ?
And
, through this method ( # 1 above ) , can we assure the
farmers that their,
· soil will become more FERTILE
· YIELD will go up by 100 %
· Income will rise dramatically ,
as
the farmers of Maharashtra are discovering , using SRT farming method developed by Chandrashekar Bhadsavle ?
I
urge Shri Amrinder Singhji to read the following :
“ A Maharashtra Farmer’s AgriTech Holds
Promise for Delhi’s Pollution Woes “
And
can someone figure out how to combine this [ SRT ]
with the following technology from China to
provide a powerful incentive to the Punjab farmers to stop burning paddy stalk
?
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11
Nov 2017
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