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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Pulses farming to become mechanised from kharif season by Gargi Parsai

Pulses farming to become mechanised from kharif season by Gargi Parsai

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published Published on Jun 30, 2010   modified Modified on Jun 30, 2010


With the continuous high prices of pulses a major worry, the Centre has reoriented its strategy from this kharif season, with farmers being given incentives to go for mechanisation through custom hiring of tractors, ridge and furrow planters, and Rotavators (rotary tillers).

Farmers are also being encouraged to take up inter-cropping, adoption of new technologies, integrated nutrient management, better seeds, and drip and sprinkler irrigation.

Farmers in 60,000 identified villages in major pulse-growing States are being provided 6,000 tractors, along with planters and rotavators in custom hiring mode. The funds will be provided from the Rs. 300 crore announced in the budget and the Rashtriya Krishi Vikas Yojna.

“There is a felt need to promote farm machinery on a custom hiring basis to service the fields of pulses and oilseed farmers,” Union Agriculture Secretary P.K. Basu told TheHindu here.The normal area under pulses is 23.08 hectares. Seven States — Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh — have an 83 per cent share of area under pulses. “With the new thrust, we expect the area to go up by 10 to 15 per cent,” said Mr. Basu.

It is estimated that the tractor and planting equipment will be employed for 180 days of the year. A tractor would service a four-hectare area a day. Custom hiring would be provided on a no-profit, no-loss basis.

A farmer currently incurs an expenditure of between Rs. 900 and 1,200 a hectare on pulse cultivation. Now, with the provision of tractors and planting equipment free of cost, farmers will have to bear only the cost of diesel, driver's wages and equipment maintenance, estimated at Rs. 500 a hectare. This is a 50 per cent subsidy on the present cost.


The Hindu, 30 June, 2010, http://www.hindu.com/2010/06/30/stories/2010063065882200.htm


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