Mustard Planter Prototype

Technology Details

A Mustard planter was developed and evaluated at research station as well as at farmers’ field against wheat seed drill (farmer’s practice) during 2016-18 to vanquish the pre-taxed constraints in Indian mustard. The prototype of Mustard planter was customized and developed by the scientists from ICAR-IIRMR, Bharatpur, India. Mustard sown with Mustard Planter recorded higher plant height (+6.5%), primary branches (+15.5%), secondary branches (+17.4%), basal node girth (+11.8%), SCMR (+7.9%), LAI (+10.6%) and RWC (+9.1%) compared to the crop sown by wheat seed drill. Mustard Planter sown crop recorded significantly higher seed yield (+9%), harvest index (+11.7%), test weight (+13.6%) and B:C ratio (+16%) in comparison to wheat seed drill sown crop.