Performance of Direct Seeded Rice by using Seed cum Fertidrill in Vizianagaram District of Andhra Pradesh
Keywords:
Benefit cost ratio,, Direct seeded rice,, Drum seeder,, Front line demonstrations,, Grain yield, Gross and Net returns.Abstract
Manual transplanting is the most popular method of crop establishment in rice growing
areas in Vizianagaram district; it requires more number of labour leads to increase in the cost of
cultivation and results in delayed transplanting. Direct seeding with the help of seed drill avoids raising
of nursery, pulling and transplanting due to which labour requirement is reduced. District Agricultural
Advisory and Transfer of Technology Centre (DAATTC), Vizianagaram, conducted ten front line
demonstrations for three consecutive years during kharif 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14. The results
revealed that direct seeded rice with ferticum seed drill recorded significantly more number of
productive tillers hill-1 (11.10) and number of grains panicle-1 (136.7) than manualtransplanting i.e. 9.87
and 129, respectively. The average grain yield in seed cum fertidrill method was 6.02 tonnes ha-1 as
compared to 5.63 tonnes ha-1 in case of manual transplanting. The increase in grain yield of direct
seeddrill sown rice was 6.9 percent compared to transplanted rice. The cost of cultivation was low (Rs.
30,369 ha-1) in direct seeded with seeddrill method than manually transplanted rice (Rs.35,454 ha-1).
The average benefit cost ratio was more with ferticum seed drill (2.07) than manual transplanting(1.65).
