Rice is being cultivated in conventional method of transplanting, but due to shortage of water and labor, new technique called Machine Transplanting is practiced by few farmers nowadays. Machine transplanting involves planting young rice seedlings into puddled soil by a machine. It requires considerably less time and labor than manual transplanting. Thoothukudi district is one among the major producers of rice in Tamil Nadu. This is study is mainly focusing on to assess the economic analysis of machine transplanted rice in Thoothukudi district. Total cost of seedling for traditional method of planting seedlings per acre was Rs. 1800/- and machine transplanting was Rs. 1000/- per acre. The expenses incurred on plant protection was slightly high in case of conventionally planted fields [Rs. 1500/-], as compared to the mechanically transplanted fields [Rs.1100/-]. Weed management was comparatively lesser [Rs. 3600/-] in case of mechanical transplanted fields, this is mainly because of practicing Cono weeder. But in case of conventionally planted fields weeding expenses reported on Rs. 4000/-. Regarding yield higher in machine transplanted rice [2350 kg/ac] when compared to conventional transplanted rice [2000 kg/ac]. The benefit-cost ratio was higher in machine transplanted rice [1: 2.5] where is in conventional transplanted rice [1: 1.9]. Hence, the farmers might have more scope to cultivate machine transplanted rice with higher profitability. The constraints faced by the farmers in machine transplantation were no proper training on operation, Non-timely availability of transplanter and land fragmentation. If increase more training to the farmers to operate rice transplanter and government might encourage more hiring centers for rice transplanter might boost up the machine transplanted rice.
economics, rice, conventional planting, machine transplanter
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