Women farm workers engaged in paddy fields, have some good news. It is the self propelled paddy transplanter developed by the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). The paddy transplanter would eliminate the farmwomen's drudgery of bending down in the muddy fields throughout the day to plant rice seedlings. The machine developed by ICAR's Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering (CIAE), Bhopal would transplant eight rows of rice seedlings at one go and perform the work done by 40 workers. One hectare of rice fields could be transplanted in a day. The Institute Director that the machine when made commercially, would be affordable to paddy farming communities in every village. Tamil Nadu, Punjab and Kerala and a few other states offer a fifty percent subsidy to small and marginal farmers for this implement. |
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