Farm Mechanization And Rice Cultivation A Study Of Rangjuli Tribal Development Block In Goalpara District Of Assam

Abstract

Agricultural mechanization can be conceptualized as a process of using mechanized work of agriculture, the objective being to increase farm input productivity.   Mechanized agriculture   presently, powered by machinery tools which have replaced many farm jobs carried out by manual labour or working by animals such as oxen, horses and mules. Mechanized agriculture includes the use of fertilizers, harvesters, hunkers and countless types of farm implements, even aero-plane helicopters of agriculture for aerial applications, computers for precision agriculture and satellite navigation etc. to increase yields. Agricultural mechanization is felt necessary for improving production efficiency, to encourage large scale and quality production, and to replace high proportion of farm labour. Contraction of agricultural land in one hand and imperative of increasing land productivity for feeding growing population on the other, necessitates farm mechanization, specially, to raise production of staples like rice. However, materialization of farm mechanization might have some challenges arising out from the rigidity of socio-economic structure of state like Assam.