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2020-10-04

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Khan, K., Pandey, Y., 2020. Custom hiring centre (CHC) for farm operations: Boon for Indian farmers. Biotica Research Today 2(10), 988-989.

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Custom Hiring Centre (CHC) for Farm Operations: Boon for Indian Farmers

Kalay Khan*

College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, SKUAST-K, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (190 025), India

Yogesh Pandey

College of Agricultural Engineering and Technology, SKUAST-K, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir (190 025), India

DOI: NIL

Keywords: Custom Hiring Centre, Farm operations, Mechanization, Small and Marginal farmers

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Farm equipment and machines that can be used for conducting a wide range of agricultural operations such as land development, seed bed preparation, sowing, planting, weeding, inter-cultivation, plant protection, harvesting and threshing. These machineries are used for the production of crops and agricultural livestock. The Indian agriculture is multidimensional perspective. On one hand it includes highly mechanized farms like Punjab, Haryana and Western Uttar Pradesh and on other, it is characterized by small fragmented land holding, hill farming, shifting cultivation which in general managed through animate source of energy, Mechanization brings in timeliness and precision to agricultural operations, greater field coverage over a short period, cost-effectiveness, efficiency in use of resources and applied inputs, conservation of available soil moisture under stress conditions and provision of adequate drainage of excess rain and floodwaters.

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