Claim · model-written summary
Farmers opined that the mechanical reaper can reduce drudgery and overcomes labour scarcity during the crucial stage of operation.
- Taxon
- ragi
Eleusine coracanae0 - Outcome
- reduce drudgerye3
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Verbatim
e3“can reduce drudgery and overcomes labour scarcity during crucial stage of operation”
e0“harvesting of ragi using reaper had reduced time of operation by 72 per cent, total labour dependency by 92 per cent and cost of cultivation by 81 per cent as compared to manual operation”
Title
Performance of Mechanical Reaper for Ragi (Eleusine coracana L.) Harvesting
Syed Mazaril; Kamalabai; S C Ranganatha Journal of Krishi Vigyan 2017. doi:10.5958/2349-4433.2017.00067.8
Other claims from this paper (5)
- Intervention effect Reaper harvesting of ragi reduced operation time by 72 per cent compared with manual operation.
- Intervention effect Reaper harvesting of ragi reduced total labour dependency by 92 per cent compared with manual operation.
- Intervention effect Reaper harvesting of ragi reduced cost of cultivation by 81 per cent compared with manual operation.
- Method / resource The ragi reaper had a field capacity of 0.23 ha/hr, compared with manual operation.
- Observation Farmers opined that the mechanical reaper was easy to operate.