Hoshiarpur/Daljeet Ajnoha/June 18 : PAU-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Hoshiarpur recently condueled field demonstrations on mechanical transplantation of paddy al village Muggowal for its further promotion.
On this occasion, Dr. Maninder Singh Bons, Associate Direelor (Training), PAU-Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Hoshiarpur shared that Punjab Agricultural University. Ludhiana advoeafes the use of mechanical paddy transplanters and for mechanical Iransplantation of paddy, mal type nursery is essential. He further informed thal Punjab Agricultural University. Ludhiana has recommended the use of PAU fractor driven mal type nursery seeder machine for raising mat type nursery offering cost and labour savings. Dr. Bons informed that progressive farmers of the village led by Sarpanch, Sh. Bhupinder Singh ventured into mechanical Iransplanting of paddy last year and raised mat type nursery manually and covered nearly 150 aeres with if. This year nearly 300 acres in and around village Muggowal are now under mechanical Iransplanting and nursery was sown using PAU Iractor-operaled seeder for mal-lype nursery during kharif, 2025 under the supervision of KVK experts which is being regularly monifored. Sh. Bhupinder Singh and his brother, Sh. Tirleehan Singh are undertaking meehanieal Iransplanting on 80 aeres of their own and doing custom hiring services on nearly 100 acres. Besides them, Sh.Balbir Singh and Sh. Kashmir Singh foo have adopted this technique this year. There is remarkable 64-68% cost saving and 93-94.4% reduction in labour by using PAU Iractor operated mal type nursery seeder as compared to the manual method of mal -type nursery sowing.
Dr. Ajaib Singh, Assistant Professor (Agricultural Engineering). PAU-KVK. Hoshiarpur shared valuable lips for optimum utilization of mechanical fransplanters with the farmers. He also demonstrated the operation of the PAU nursery culier, a machine capable of euffing 325-425 mais per hour. The cuffer ensures uniform euffing of nursery mals and offers 58.8% reduefion in labour and 55.7% cost saving compared to manual cutting
