Cost Effective Implements for Small Wheat Farmers in Bhal Region of Gujarat

Author: Shakya H.B., Vinzuda Sudhir, Thorat G.N. and Rangapara D.J.

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Abstract

The crop cultivation in Bhal & Coastal Agro-climatic zone in Gujarat is relatively difficult and risky which depends mainly on intensity and frequency of rainfall. The kharif crops generally suffer due to inundation of water or otherwise shortage of moisture. The sowing time of Rabi crops is largely governed by the soil moisture conditions rather than temperature. Rainfed wheat, the durum or macroni wheat is the most important Rabi (post monsoon) crop of the region. It occupies an area of about 1.0 lakh hectares with an average productivity of 544 kg/ha. As per the reports of the Times of India e-Newspaper (February 22, 2019), small farmers are continuously increasing day by day in all over the country. In Gujarat, there are 53.19 lakh registered farmers and among 16.15 lakh farmers are small, 20.17 lakh are marginal and only 39893 are large farmers. The changing socio-psychologic and economic condition of the region are affecting the use of farm machinery also. As a result, even a large land holding farmers of this region are facing economic crisis and poor socio-economic condition and the condition of the small farmers is very critical and worse than marginal and large farmers of the region. For sustainable development of Agriculture and survival of small farmers particularly of the region, study is conducted to access the different tools, implements and machines for wheat crop cultivation as per RNAM test code at Agricultural Research Station and Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Anand Agricultural University, Arnej (Dist: Ahmedabad) during 2020-21 to guide the extension worker for proper selection of tools and machinery by small farmers of the region

Keywords

Durum wheat, Bhal region, farm Implements, dryland agriculture, conserved moisture condition

Conclusion

Improved and efficient tools, small implements and machines plays an important role in the sustainable development of the agriculture. Extension worker has to keep in mind that of helping the farmers to make proper selection of tools and implements according to the requirement and constraints of the farmers. All types of the farmers will not require the same tools or machine. The socio-economic capacity of farmers to buy the tools and machines is also very important. As the most of the farmers of the region are small and marginal, they will be mostly dependent on the manually operated tools and implements and sometime the wok capacity of farmers is not matching with their operational requirements. Hence, selection of scientifically designed, tested and useful tools and implements with farmer’s socioeconomic condition should be given due consideration in order to achieve sustainable agricultural development in the Bhal region of Gujarat

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Shakya H.B., Vinzuda Sudhir, Thorat G.N. and Rangapara D.J. (2024). Cost Effective Implements for Small Wheat Farmers in Bhal Region of Gujarat. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 16(8): 275-279