Eco Friendly Mechanization Option for Managing Sugarcane Field Trash
By M. K. Singh* and A. K. Singh | 28-12-2022 | Page: 136-140
Abstract
Trash management, without burning, is a major challenge which farmers are facing particularly in contest of the changing scenario where use of field trash for rural house hold activities are declining. Trash management in sugarcane has different challenges than cereal crops because in case of sugarcane generally three ratoon crops are taken and field is not free as in cereals. Efforts were made at different places to develop and study the effect of trash management machines on raising ratoon crop in sugarcane. Moreover, cultural operations like stubbles shaving, off-barring, fertilizer application have to be performed for better ratoon initiation after harvesting of sugarcane. Commercially available trash shredder and mulcher are used for trash management particularly for cereal crops. The available machines shreds the crop residues into small pieces and spread on the field, which serves as bio mulch and decomposes gradually. Very little information is available on use of machine for complete trash management in sugarcane and treating it with chemical adjuvant for faster decomposition.