Investigating the Status of Rice Mechanization in the Eastern Regions of Gilan Province

Subject Areas : Sustainable production technologies

Roohollah Yousefi ¹ , Alireza Allameh ² , Mohammad Younesi Alamooti ³

1 - Assistant Professor, Rice Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (AREEO), Rasht, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Rice Research Institute of Iran, Agricultural Research, Education, and Extension Organization, Rasht, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Agricultural Research, Education and Extension Organization (Imam Khomeini Education Center)

Received: 2024-07-27 Accepted : 2024-09-20 Published : 2024-09-21

Keywords: Mechanization degree, Mechanization level, Mechanization capacity, Economic efficiency, Executive power ,

Abstract :

The results of this study show that the degree of mechanization of tillage, planting with transplanter, spraying, weeding and harvesting in the eastern areas of Gilan province is 100%, 70.41%, 37.32%, 3.85% and 91.12% respectively. The level of rice mechanization in these regions is 3.95 horsepower per hectare. Roudsar city has the lowest level of mechanization and Siahkal city has the highest level with 2.75 and 5.14 horsepower per hectare, respectively. The average mechanization capacity of rice in the eastern regions of Gilan province is 646.51 horsepower-hour per hectare. The highest amount of mechanization capacity is related to the Primary tillage (Spring) with a tractor-turned plow and the lowest is related to the harvesting operation with rice self-propelled reaper, respectively, equal to 1323.09 and 30.80 horsepower-hour per hectare has been obtained. The lowest economic efficiency for Siahkal city and the highest for Roudsar city were calculated as 0.43 and 0.74 tons per horsepower, respectively. The results of this study show that the number of tillage machines and transplanters available in the eastern regions is suitable, and only by improving the management of machines, the level of implementation of mechanized transplanting operations should be increased. In the case of harvesting machines, there is a need to strengthen and introduce more machines to improve the degree of mechanization, and in the case of weeding operations, due to the low degree of mechanization, there is an urgent need to plan for the introduction of suitable machines.

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