Benefits of Summer Ploughing

Summer ploughing means ploughing the agricultural field across the slope during summer with the help of ploughing machinery like intercultivator that have attachments like ridger and plough. The main primary purpose of summer ploughing is to open the soil crust with deep plough while at the same time turning the soil for disinfection with help from sunrays.

To recharge soil profile, offseason tillage i.e., summer ploughing is very important during pre-monsoon showers in May month. It helps sowing of seeds and planting of crops immediately after the start of the southwest monsoon. Summer ploughing increases the water content of soil and reduces soil erosion. This ploughing reduces weeds and controls pest.

The depth and number of ploughs depend on the deepness of weeds. The best practice is to do two summer ploughs before the monsoon arrivals at an interval of 15 to 20 days. The third plough can do to pulverise the soil and prepare the seedbeds for sowing after a first monsoon rain.

Benefits of summer ploughing:

• The first and main benefit is to improve the infiltration and permeability capacity of the soil, which increases the moisture conservation capacity of the soil. So plant roots can get moisture easily to grow.
• Due to two to three times of ploughing the soil gets alternate drying and cooling. This helps to improve the soil structure.
• Summer ploughing prevents the surface runoff i.e., soil erosion, improves moisture conservation hence refilling the water table.
• Ploughing improves soil aeration which helps to the multiplication of microorganisms. Due to this microorganism’s decomposition of organic matter resulting in rich nutrient available to the crops.
• Pests present on plant debris are exposed to sunlight due to turning the soil so that the pest is destroyed and also prevent the spread.
• Capacity to absorbing rainwater increases in the soil. Atmospheric nitrate mixed with water and enters into the soil and then improves soil fertility.

KisanKraft has ploughing equipment i.e., inter cultivator runs with various fuels like petrol, diesel. And also we have different blades and accessories suitable for intercultivators like ridger and plough.

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