‘Mitter Seeder’: PAU’s low-cost machine for incorporation of paddy straw in soil

Among the machines disposable for paddy straw incorporation, the ace seeder has been the astir fashionable prime arsenic it allows farmers to incorporated paddy residue into the soil. However, the ace seeder comes with respective drawbacks, including a precocious archetypal cost, the request for a almighty tractor (60 HP oregon above), debased tract capableness (only 5-6 acres per day), and the request for precocious ungraded moisture to forestall patchy germination. Nowadays, farmers similar four-wheel-drive tractors for the harmless cognition and the transport of ace seeder machines owed to their dense weight, often exceeding a tonne.

the ace seeder comes with respective drawbacks, including a precocious archetypal cost, the request for a almighty tractor (60 HP oregon above), debased tract capableness (only 5-6 acres per day), and the request for precocious ungraded moisture to forestall patchy germination.

PAU Vice-Chancellor Dr Satbir Singh Gosal said, “The Mitter Seeder afloat incorporates paddy straw aft harvester harvesting and sows wheat successful rows 7.25 inches apart, each successful a azygous pass. Importantly, this instrumentality tin beryllium operated utilizing a 50 HP two-wheel-drive tractor and has a tract capableness of 8 to 9 acres per day. The instrumentality volition beryllium importantly much affordable than existing alternatives. Several cultivation instrumentality manufacturers person already expressed involvement successful producing the Mitter Seeder. However, commercialisation volition statesman lone aft the owed process of proposal for the caller instrumentality is completed.”

PAU Extension Education Director Dr Makhan Singh Bhullar said, “The Mitter Seeder has shown fantabulous results during probe trials and astatine farmers’ fields. The instrumentality has the imaginable to alteration paddy straw absorption successful the region.”

PAU Agronomist Dr Jasvir Gill said, “The Mitter Seeder was created a fewer years agone and went done rigorous investigating astatine aggregate locations. Farmers’ tract demonstrations were conducted during the Rabi seasons of 2022-23 and 2023-24, with affirmative feedback from farmers who tested the machine. These farmers reported the Mitter Seeder performed good successful their fields, offering an economically viable alternate to accepted paddy straw incorporation methods.”

Dr Harminder Singh Sidhu of Gadri Baba Dulla Singh Giani Nihal Singh Foundation, on with his chap farmers, expressed his gratitude and urged the PAU authorities to swiftly transportation the Mitter Seeder exertion for the payment of the full farming assemblage and to beforehand biology sustainability.