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COMPENDIUM, IEEC-2023   ( ISBN : 978-81-967860-4-5 )
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Theme-3: Bio-diversity and Resource Conservation, Livelihood and Food Security towards Sustainable Agri-food Systems

Extent of Adoption of Paddy Residue Management Techniques in Sri Muktsar Sahib

Karamjit Sharma, Vivek Kumar, Gurmail Singh and Mahekpreet Kaur

Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sri Muktsar Sahib (PAU)
sharmakaramjit@pau.edu

Abstract

Rice-wheat cropping system is the predominant cropping system in Punjab. The major problem of this cropping system is that the farmers after combine harvesting of paddy fields resort to in-situ loose straw burning in order to clear fields for sowing of wheat crop. Several rice residue management (RRM) technologies have been developed and evaluated on large scale in entire North-Western India. The present study was planned to evaluate the adoption status of different RRM technologies in the South-Western district of Punjab. The data was collected from randomly selected 200 farmers covering all the administrative blocks of Sri Muktsar Sahib, Punjab. The results of the study revealed that in 54.2 of study area, rice straw was fully managed whereas on 23.5% area, the rice residue was partially managed. Of the total 200 respondents, 49.3% and 25.1% farmers fully and partially managed the rice residue using various technologies, while 25.7% farmers fully burnt the rice residue. The rice residue was fully managed in 44.8% area with super seeder, 44.7% area with baler, 7.8% area with happy seeder and 2.7% with MB plough. Under the partial burning situation, 59.2% area was managed with zero till drill while 40.8% area with super seeder machine. It was concluded from the study that ex-situ technology i.e. straw removal by baler and wheat sown with zero till drill are the most adopted technologies followed by super seeder, an in-situ straw management technique in Sri Muktsar Sahib district of Punjab.

IEEC-2023 at RARI (SKNAU, Jobner), Jaipur, Rajasthan organised by Society of Extension Education, Agra, India