Agricultural Mechanization and Its Problems in Gauradaha Municipality of Jhapa District, Nepal
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Santosh Khanal
Tribhuvan University
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Ramila Basnet
Keywords:
Agri-tools; Farm mechanization; Farm power; Machinery and tools, etc.Abstract
Mechanisation can lower labour costs, workloads, and operating times, which eventually boosts agricultural productivity and output. The study aimed to assess the status of mechanisation, problems of adoption of mechanisation, and its impact was conducted during 2024-25. Purposive random sampling of 120 farmers from four wards of the Gauradaha municipality of Jhapa was used and collected data on socio-economic status, problems, and the impact of farm mechanisation. Chi-square test was used to determine the relationship between selected variables. This study suggested that 100% farmers used cultivators and threshers, followed by 79.17% pump sets/ motor, 55% combine harvester, 42.5% Reaper and 11.7% others (Power tiller, Corn sheller, Corn harvester, Driller, Paddy straw cutter). Subsidy to buy farm machinery was obtained by 10% of farmers only. Larger holdings of farmers' land had a positive significance in the use and adoption of farm mechanisation.
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