Book of Extended summaries ISDA

International Conference on Reimagining Rainfed Agro-ecosystems: Challenges &
Opportunities during 22-24, December 2022 at ICAR-CRIDA, Hyderabad
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Design and Development of Planter for Intercropping Castor with Green
Gram
H. S. Chaudhary and R. N. Singh
Centre for Natural Resources Management, Sardarkrushinagar Dantiwada Agricultural University,
Gujarat (India) – 385 506
In India, the area and production of castor is 9.10 lakh hectares and 18.89 lakh tones,
respectively (Castor outlook report - July 2021, PJTSAU). Inter-cropping of short-duration
crop like green-gram (Phaseolus radiates L.), black gram (P. mungo L.) and cluster bean
(Cyamopsis tetragonoloba (L.) Taubert) with castor is remunerative for dry land conditions.
Being a long duration, widely-spaced crop with comparatively thin plant population in
comparison with other field crops, it offers a great scope for using its inter-space by growing
short-duration crop and thereby helps to harvest the potential productivity (Singh and Singh,
1988).
In Gujarat, most of the farmers adopt agricultural practices of sowing green gram and castor as
an intercrop in the rainfed condition in Kharif season with green gram sowing by seed drill and
then castor sowing manually for maintaining the desired spacing which takes more time as well
energy. The manual method of sowing of castor is common in India, as well as in all Gujarat
which results in more time requirement and serious backache of the farmers. Till now, there is
no such type of intercrop planter is developed which can maintain the proper spacing between
the castor and green gram crop simultaneously. To overcome this problem, there is need to
Emerging approaches (RS, AI, ML, Drones etc) for crop management &assessment
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