Instead of burning the crop residues, after ploughing these crop residues with the help of a rotavator, apply water, due to which the crop residues mix with the soil. Mixing crop residues in the field gives many benefits along with increasing the fertility of the land.

Benefits of mixing crop residues in the field

• Farmers can take advantage of organic farming by mixing crop residues in the field with the help of rotavator.

• Biodiversity is maintained by mixing crop residues in the field itself. The beneficial insects present in the ground eat and destroy the harmful insects. The amount of organic matter in the soil increases, due to which crop production is more.

• By mixing the residues of pulse crops in the soil, the amount of nitrogen increases, which also increases crop production.

• Instead of burning the crop residue, the farmers will make fodder for their animals by keeping it as straw, on the one hand, they can also increase their income by selling the extra straw.

How to manage crop residue

• Crop residues can be collected for animal feed or industrial management.

• Paddy straw can be used for animal feed by treating it with urea/calcium hydroxide.

• In the field with the help of straw belling machines, crop residues can be made into blocks and stored in less space, which can be used as animal feed.

• By running a reaper machine on wheat straw we can make chaff.

• The use of crop residues is also helpful in mushroom cultivation.

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