PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF ROTARY HARROW ROTAVATOR AND DISC PLOUGH FOR BANANA (Musa sp.) RESIDUE MANAGEMENT IN CLAYEYSOIL 2043

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2015-07
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JAU, JUNAGADH
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Banana (Musa sp.) is the major staple food crop for millions of people in the developing countries of tropics. Banana is believed to be native of India and is widely grown in tropical, subtropical and coastal region of India. In the recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the importance of banana as house hold food, nutritional and social security in many parts of the world. In India, there has been a significant increase in terms of area, production and productivity in the last two decades. It is grown in more than 130 countries across the world in an area of 5.14 million ha producing 105.32 million tons of bananas. In western countries, different types of crop residue management implement are there but in India, yet conventional implements are being used, which are not suitable to complete operation economically and timely. Therefore, use of new implements is appropriate for present requirement of India. Economics and timeliness of the operation are of prime importance in agriculture. Increase in demand of labour and its economics as compared to machine, leads to importance of effective specific machinery. To reduce the operational cost and time of operation involved in management of banana pseudostem residue is very essential. Rotary harrow, rotavator and disc plough were selected for operation in different treatments for achieving functional performance. Three treatments were decided considering the requirement of residue incorporation and practices followed by the farmers in the region. In treatment T1 two passes of rotary harrow were made. In treatment T2 disc plough followed by rotavator was operated twice. Rotavator alone was used thrice in treatment T3. Experimental results revealed that average soil moisture content of the experimental at plot was 17.55% (db), bulk density, soil strength and soil particle size before the experiment was 1.334 gm/cc, 735 KPa and 3.75 mm (MWD) respectively. The average diameter of pseudostem was 20.7 cm, average length was 201.2 cm, and average moisture content of residue was 87.51%.
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