Trial run of drum seeder
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 17 2012:
The Farm Machinery Division of the State Agriculture Department has run Drum Seeder on trial basis successfully at Senapati Loukol, Moidangpok Khunou in Imphal West district today.
The introduction of the machine is a part of the Agriculture Minister, Md Abdul Nasir's commitment to work for the betterment and welfare of the farmers, said Additional Chief Engineer of the Farm Machinery Division of the Agriculture Department, K Manoranjan.
Using the flexible seeder machine, broad range of seeds of paddy can be seeded without much labour.
Against the market rate of at around Rs 9,000, the drum seeder would be made available to the farmers at subsidised rate of Rs 6,500, K Manoranjan said.
Farmers can now saw-seed using the drum seeder machine.
During the trial run, ICDP (Rice) in-charge L Ibomcha and AO (Sugarcane) Y Ranjit were
also present.