Vol. 12, Issue 3 (2023)

Author(s):
Lokesh Kumawat, Babban Yadav, Manish Patel, Ankit Somra, Rajender Kumar and Balveer Choudhary

Abstract:
Farm mechanization plays a vital role in timeliness of different farm operations. In areas of intensive agriculture, where two or more crops are taken in a year use of machinery can greatly enhance the productivity by timely performers of various agricultural operations and thereby improving the input use efficiency. This is the most capital intensive agricultural input. The highly populated state should progressively adopt power farming for timely and precise field operations at reduced costs and maximize utilization efficiencies of costly inputs for conservation of natural resources. Precision land leveling and use of efficient irrigation equipment for economizing in water requirements of crops including diversification of crops suiting to water availability are important issues in the region. It has been talked for long that there must be full mechanization of farms to fetch higher returns and reduction of human labor. But for a country like India with plenty of labor force, does mechanization really help in attaining a better yield due to timeliness of operations. The study has been undertaken particularly for district Ballia of U.P as there has been no work done on the assessment of energy use efficiency and mechanization level of wheat crop in this region.