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49 1 2017 82 - 84 Short communications
Comparative performance of manual weeders under system of rice intensification in Indo-Gangetic plains
Bikash Sarkar, S.K. Singh, Rakesh Kumar, J.S. Mishra, Ajay Kumar, Vikash Yadav, R.B. Reddy and B.P. Bhatt
DOI : http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0974-8164.2017.00020.X
Email : jsmishra31@gmail.com
Address : ICAR-Research Complex for Eastern Region, ICAR Parisar, P.O: B.V. College, Patna, Bihar 800 014

Keywords

SRI, weeder, field capacity, weeding efficiency

Abstract

Two weeding tools were evaluated in SRI. Maximum weeding efficiency was recorded with mandava weeder as compared to cono-weeder. Mandava weeder consumed minimum man-days/ha. Therefore, mandava  weeder may be promoted at farmer’s fields in wider scale as it reduces energy use of small and marginal farming community of the Indo-Gangrtic Plains of the Eastern India.

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