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Mechanized Dry Direct Seeding using Multipupose Seeder
Climate change is among the biggest “wicked issues” in rice cultivation. From the literature, we know that wicked problems are difficult to solve owing to the extent of the interconnectedness of issues attached to them. With climate change, we know that water will be scarce for agriculture, if not already, given its competition with more urgent and important concerns such as for domestic purposes. We also know that the workforce is abandoning the agriculture sector in favor of the more established income-generating industries. The recitation of related issues can go on.
It is for this reason that thinkers in the agriculture sector are innovating to come up with solutions so farmers may continue cultivating crops despite the scenarios cited above.
This book revolves around the mechanized dry direct seeding (MDDS) technology project of DA-PhilRice and UPLB funded by the DA-Bureau of Agricultural Research. In rice cultivation, this technology is known to be more cost-effective than transplanting owing primarily to reduction in labor cost.
There are, however, difficulties surrounding dry direct seeding such as the inadequacy of workforce during crop establishment and inferior crop establishment itself. This book discusses in detail the MDDS technology—its advantages over manual dry direct seeding and manual transplanting. It gives extension workers and intermediaries, and progressive farmers themselves adequate information as to why MDDS is now the big thing in rice crop establishment.
The Multi-Purpose Seeder, which is the main machine featured in this book, is adaptable not only to rice but also corn and mungbean.
This publication also benefits researchers, students, members of the academe, and policy conduits in the agriculture sector. Data from field work are put together in this book to invite productive discourses on the optimization of the MP Seeder for dry direct seeding.
