{"title":"Effect of Mole drain and Tracked Agricultural Prime Movers on Soft Soil Paddy Areas","authors":"Mohd Taufik Ahmad","doi":"10.36877/aafrj.a0000228","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Soft soil condition has become a major problem faced by Malaysian paddy farmers. MARDI has developed mole drain subsoiler and tracked agricultural prime movers to overcome this problem. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of integrating mole drain and tracked prime movers on soft soil area. The mole drain was installed on an identified soft soil area at an experimental plot at the Department of Agriculture (DOA) Station, Kg Bukit Merah, Seberang Perai Tengah, Penang. Tracked prime movers were used for land preparation, transplanting and harvesting. Results showed that the soft soil condition of the plot was reduced to from 79% to 17%, a reduction of 62%.","PeriodicalId":420247,"journal":{"name":"Advances in Agricultural and Food Research Journal","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Advances in Agricultural and Food Research Journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.36877/aafrj.a0000228","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Soft soil condition has become a major problem faced by Malaysian paddy farmers. MARDI has developed mole drain subsoiler and tracked agricultural prime movers to overcome this problem. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the effect of integrating mole drain and tracked prime movers on soft soil area. The mole drain was installed on an identified soft soil area at an experimental plot at the Department of Agriculture (DOA) Station, Kg Bukit Merah, Seberang Perai Tengah, Penang. Tracked prime movers were used for land preparation, transplanting and harvesting. Results showed that the soft soil condition of the plot was reduced to from 79% to 17%, a reduction of 62%.
软土状况已成为马来西亚水田农民面临的主要问题。MARDI开发了鼹鼠式地下排水器和履带式农业原动机来克服这一问题。本文的目的是评价摩尔排水和履带原动机在软土地区的综合效果。鼹鼠排水沟被安装在槟城西槟榔Perai Tengah, Kg Bukit Merah,农业部(DOA)站的一个试验田的一个确定的软土区域。履带式原动机用于整地、移栽和收割。结果表明,该地块软土状况由79%降至17%,降幅达62%。