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Direct seeding of rice: Punjab’s paddy farmers eye mechanical sowing to save on labour cost -Vishal Joshi

-Hindustan Times DSR ‘tar-wattar’ (good soil moisture), a low-cost mechanical sowing technique to reduce water footprint in the cultivation of water-guzzling rice by 20%, was indigenously developed by scientists of Ludhiana-based Punjab Agricultural University BATHINDA: As farmers are expecting a sharp rise in farm labourers’ demand to charge up to 6,000 per acre for paddy sowing this season, direct seeding of rice (DSR), which for the first time comes with an incentive of 1,500 per acre by the Punjab government, is getting more attention. DSR ‘tar-wattar’ (good soil moisture), a low-cost mechanical sowing technique to reduce water footprint in the cultivation of water-guzzling rice by 20%, was indigenously developed by scientists of Ludhiana-based Punjab Agricultural University (PAU). Sowing under this mechanical system will commence from May 20 where pre-germinated seeds are directly drilled in the fields with a tractor-powered machine under the water-conservation technique with no nursery preparation or transplantation unlike the conventional methods of sowing. The Punjab government has been pushing the technique as an alternative to the traditional method as besides water conservation, the DSR also cuts the labour input cost. During field trials, the DSR was done on 23,500 hectares in 2019 and the area under this technique jumped to 5.4 lakh hectares in 2020. Please click here to read more.