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Operationalization of Custom Hiring Centres on Farm Implements in Hundred Villages in India

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Title Operationalization of Custom Hiring Centres on Farm Implements in Hundred Villages in India
Operationalization of Custom Hiring Centres on Farm Implements in Hundred Villages in India
 
Creator ICAR_CRIDA_AICRPAM
 
Subject Hiring Centres,Farm Implements
 
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Timeliness of agricultural operations is crucial to coping with climatic
variability, especially with sowing and intercultural operations. With
increasing climatic variability, timely sowing or re-sowing alone can reduce
crop losses significantly. However, farmers are often not able to complete
critical operations in time for want of labour availability. This calls for
promotion of appropriate agricultural machinery for performing critical
agricultural operations. Although many efforts have gone in this direction
in the past, not much dent has been made in improving the timeliness of
agricultural operations. This is mostly because of the un-affordability of
many machines by small farmers and difficulties in maintenance and repairs.
CRIDA has been working for promotion of mechanization in small farms
for over two decades and has developed several institutional systems to
address this issue. One of the most successful strategies is the custom hiring
of agricultural implements. This has successfully empowered farmers to
tide over the shortage of labour and improve efficiency of agricultural
operations. CRIDA has attempted this concept on large scale through 100
Krishi Vigyan Kendras across the nation under the National Initiative on
Climate Resilient Agriculture (NICRA). This is an effort, first of its kind
that has caught the attention of farmers, state extension functionaries and
planners for addressing the growing labour crisis in agriculture and the
need for improving timeliness of operations, particularly in the backdrop
of climate change.
In this publication, we share the basic information that illustrates the range
of machinery deployed across 100 villages and the performance of custom
hiring centers in these places. Although, this publication does not detail the
impact of custom hiring centers at this stage, it tries to give a glimpse of the
prospects in mechanizing small farms in areas faced with climate related
challenges. Besides, we also hope that this will pave the way for appropriate
policy formulation for promoting small farm mechanization at state and
district levels.
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Date 2020-01-17T08:28:28Z
2020-01-17T08:28:28Z
2013-05-01
 
Type Technical Report
 
Identifier Not Available
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http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/30735
 
Language English
 
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Publisher ICAR_CRIDA_AICPRAM_NICRA