Potato is an important vegetable crop in India. This crop plays a vital role in the food security of both India and South Asia. The mechanization of potato crops was started in the year 1978 by Central Potato Research Institute, Jalandhar, Punjab by fabricating a tractor-operated potato planter and potato digger. This review highlights a few details of the advancement in the mechanization of potato farming. This review reveals that Uttar Pradesh is the leading potato-producing state in India followed by West Bengal. The maximum yield per hectare for potato crops has been found in Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal. Raised bed and ridge planting is a common method of sowing potatoes in India. Minimum tillage systems give better yields for potato crops due to improved physical, hydro-physical and biological properties of soil. Semi-automatic and automatic potato planters’ machinery is very popular in India for sawing. The field capacity of a tractor-drawn two-row automatic planter is about 0.4-0.5 ha/h. while working at 4-5 km/h. Both Semiautomatic planters and automatic planters are also available with fertilizer application systems. Additionally, intercropping systems, such as those involving potatoes and sugarcane, are popular in Uttar Pradesh and northern India. Advances in mechanization have brought potato production to the point where little manual labour is really necessary. Potato production in India has been continuously increasing from year 2013 to 2019. Similarly, potato consumption was also continuously increasing from the year 1994 to 2013. This resulted in improved farm machinery and processing equipment in potato farming. This paper highlights a few details of the advancement in the mechanization of potato farming.
Author (s) Details
Sandeep Bhardwaj
Department of Basic Engineering, CCS Haryana Agricultural University,
Hisar, 125004, Haryana, India.
Rupali Sharma
Department of Horticulture, CCS Haryana Agricultural University, Hisar,
125004, Haryana, India
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