Academic Journal
Power Availability and Requirements for Small-Scale Rice Farm Operations: A Case in Riau Province, Indonesia
| العنوان: | Power Availability and Requirements for Small-Scale Rice Farm Operations: A Case in Riau Province, Indonesia |
|---|---|
| المؤلفون: | Paman, Ujang, Inaba, Shigeki, Uchida, Susumu |
| المصدر: | American Journal of Agricultural Science, Engineering, and Technology; Vol. 1 No. 1 (2017): American Journal of Agricultural Science, Engineering, and Technology; 1-11 ; 2158-8104 ; 2164-0920 ; 10.54536/ajaset.v1i1 |
| بيانات النشر: | E-Palli Publishers |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Power availability and requirement, Small-scale rice operation, Human power, Animal power, Mechanical power |
| الوصف: | The objective of this study was to identify the power availability and requirement for small-scale rice farming operations in Riau Province. Primary and secondary data were gathered from different sources. A total of 120 farmers were interview to collect data primer from two selected rice centers in two regencies of the province during the 2008 rainy cropping season. As a result, the availability of farm power still is very low, although showing an increasing trend during a period of 1997-06 primarily for mechanical power unit. During the same period, the stage of rice mechanization process has also been relatively low and still below the take-off stage in critical point of the mechanization process. Under these conditions, it was analyzed that the increased number of farm power has no effect on total cultivated area and yield of rice over the years. The main sources of farm power practiced by rice farmers are human labor and mechanical power, while draught animal was not used in Riau rice farming operations anymore. Mechanical power is just used to perform land preparation, threshing and milling operations, while other farm operations are still done completely by manual. The total power required per hectare of rice farm operations was 418 kW (561 hp) on average. Although mechanized farm operations need more power, the total operation hours would decrease significantly. The results suggest that efforts should be taken to continuously encourage farmers to adopt mechanical power technologies in order to carry out farm operations timely and short period, and to make rice production process more productive and efficient. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article in journal/newspaper |
| وصف الملف: | application/pdf |
| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | https://journals.e-palli.com/home/index.php/ajaset/article/view/15/594; https://journals.e-palli.com/home/index.php/ajaset/article/view/15 |
| DOI: | 10.54536/ajaset.v1i1.15 |
| الاتاحة: | https://journals.e-palli.com/home/index.php/ajaset/article/view/15 https://doi.org/10.54536/ajaset.v1i1.15 |
| Rights: | Copyright (c) 2017 Ujang Paman, Shigeki Inaba, Susumu Uchida ; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.F2219921 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
| DOI: | 10.54536/ajaset.v1i1.15 |
|---|