Chhatarpur. More than half of the farmers in the district have sown wheat, but there is good news for those farmers who have still not sown wheat. If you have lagged behind in sowing wheat, then you can increase the production of the crop by sowing wheat with plough.
Farmer Raja Pal, while talking to Local 18, says that he has been farming with plows and oxen for the last 40 years. They also do it with tractors, but mostly farming has been done with plough. Crops like jowar and paddy have been cultivated only with plows and oxen. Currently sowing wheat. It is more convenient to do farming with a plow than with a tractor.
The entire seed grows in the field
Farmers say that the advantage of sowing with plow and oxen is that all the seeds sown in the field germinate. Actually, when the wind blows, the seed of the tractor comes out, whereas the seed sown by the plow does not come out, because the seed sown by the plow remains further down.
Production is more than tractor
Farmers say that there is a difference of 1 sack in the production produced by sowing by tractor and plough. For example, 4 quintals of wheat is obtained from 1 bigha of field sown by a tractor, while 5 quintals of wheat is obtained from 1 bigha of field sown by plow and oxen.
Money from plowing and sowing is saved
Farmers say that they have been rearing bulls since their ancestors. Because they do farming only with plows and oxen. Today, in the rising inflation, farming with plow saves money on ploughing-sowing. Although farming with plows and oxen takes hard work, we can do it.
The seeds sown by plow and oxen reach the soil in winter.
Farmer Chhota Anuragi says that the advantage of plow-bull sowing is that its seeds reach the cold of the soil. The seed does not come out due to the wind, whereas the seed sown by a tractor gets dislodged by the wind, meaning it comes out because the seed in the tractor does not reach the depth of the soil. We have also been doing farming with oxen only. All crops are cultivated with bulls only.
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FIRST PUBLISHED: January 5, 2025, 10:42 IST
