Benefits of Systematic Mechanized Farms

• Canals enable precise control over the distribution of water, allowing for efficient water management.
• Level fields facilitate the even distribution of water for irrigation. It helps in preventing water runoff and reduces the use of water.
• Due to the correct farm shape and adequate space, agricultural machinery can be operated at full capacity and the fuel usage can be minimized.
• Maintaining consistent and appropriate water levels in paddy fields can lead to higher rice yields.
• Because of utilizing combine harvester, crops can be harvested and threshed in time and this reduces the losses, improves crop quality and increases yields.
• Due to the farm road next to the field, harvested crops can be quickly and easily transported under the shelter, thus reducing crop damage and achieving good quality crops.
• Agricultural machinery can be operated at any time and in any season, thus enabling to grow double or triple cropping instead of single cropping.

Selection of the Systematic Mechanized Farmland Consolidation Project Area

• There should be willingness to participate by all farmers involved in the project area.
• The land in project area should be farmland with a total of atleast 100 acres.
• Certificate of the Right to Use the Farmland (Form-7) should be issued for these farm plots.
• The surrounding farmlands should not be affected by the project.
• The average ownership of individual farmer should be above 2 acres.
• The project area should be a region ensuring the integrity of the irrigation system and the availability of water.
• There should be efficient transportation and communication in project area.
• Agricultural machinery should be utilized in project area.
• It should be a region that wants to repair ridges, repair irrigation and drainage canals, and maintain farm roads for sustainable systematic mechanized farms and cultivate with 100 percent utilization of agricultural machinery.

Systematic Mechanized Farmland Project Areas

Consolidated Systematic Mechanized Farms

Benefits of Upland Reclamation

• Yearly implementation of upland reclamation in upland regions ensure surplus rice for the local people.
• The local people who depend on the shifting cultivation system will be able to settle down well and their standard of living will improve.
• Based on the upland terrace rice plantation, it will be possible to change to double cropping system.
• It will also prevent soil degradation and contribute to environmental protection.

Basic Principles for Upland Reclamation

• According to the type of crop to be cultivated, the water availability for cultivation, the condition of slope in the project area, and the desire of local farmers, reclamation of sloping agricultural land (or) reclamation of terrace (or) reclamation of sloping agricultural land and terrace should be undertaken.
• It should be acceptable by the local farmers.
• There should be participation of local farmers who depend on shifting cultivation in reclamation of terrace.
• Soil conservation activities should be undertaken to prevent from soil erosion.
• Double cropping system should be introduced based upon cash-crop cultivation.
• It should be contribute protection of natural environment, regional development, food sufficiency and surplus in the region.

Selection of the Upland Reclamation Project Area

• The project area should be the most suitable place for the people who depend on shifting cultivation.
• It should be the fertile and appropriate land for cultivation.
• It should be selected on condition of the slope.
• In case of resettlement, the selected area should be convenient for local people.