Volume : VII, Issue : X, October - 2017

DETERMINANTS OF PADDY MECHANIZATION THROUGH AGRO MACHINERY SERVICE CENTRES

Salini R Chandran

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 Paddy cultivation needs appropriate mechanization to cope up with the increased cost of cultivation due to high wages and scarcity of labourers. The farm workers are largely migrating to works offered under the MGNREG Act, 2005 thereby causing a shortage of labour for labour–intensive crops such as paddy. AMSCs are the promoters of farm mechanisation among the farming community. They act as technology and information disseminating centres and provide modern machinery services to farmers. The present study tried to identify the determinants of paddy mechanisation through AMSCs by taking into account the relationship between overall mechanisation index of farmers and variables such as level of education, farm experience, cost of cultivation, production and income from paddy. It has been proved from the study that reduced cost of cultivation, availability of skilled labour force, and saving in time are the factors that encourage the adoption of mechanisation by farmers through AMSCs. 

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Salini R Chandran, DETERMINANTS OF PADDY MECHANIZATION THROUGH AGRO MACHINERY SERVICE CENTRES, INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-7 | Issue-10 | October-2017

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