Journal ID : AMA-09-04-2022-11292
[This article belongs to Volume - 53, Issue - 04]
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Title : Mechanization in Maize crop cultivation in Telangana, India - Energy Efficiency Indices and productivity

Abstract :

The field experiment and demonstrations were conducted at Agricultural Research Station, Karimnagar and in farmers fields in different mandals of Karimnagar district, Telangana, India from 2017-18 to 2019-20 on Mechanization in maize crop cultivation versus conventional /farmers method of cultivation to study various energy inputs and output energy equivalents, efficiency and productivity. The study consisted of two treatments 1.Conventional method 2.Mechanization in maize cultivation for sowing, spraying, harvesting and threshing operations. The results revealed that Cultivation of maize by mechanization requires significantly less input energy (36651 MJha-1) than compared to conventional farmers practice (37825 MJ ha-1) because of less labour usage under mechanization. The output energy in mechanized method of maize cultivation is significantly less (108089 MJ ha-1) over conventional farmers practice (122537 MJ ha-1) as energy accumulation in mechanization is only from grain yield, While in conventional method both grain and stalk yield contribute to significantly higher output energy and inturn higher net energy (84712 MJ ha-1). However energy efficiency and energy profitability is statistically on par in both methods of maize cultivation. The energy productivity (0.200 Kg ha-1) and energy intensity in economic terms (1.33 MJ Rs. -1) with mechanized method of maize cultivation resulted higher than conventional method indicating energy efficient sustainable production system with advantages of saving of labour mandays, reduction of cost of operation and time over conventional method of maize cultivation.

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