An innovative means of basic soil cultivation in the cultivation of sorghum in the conditions of the Republic of Burundi

Abstract

Sorghum is one of the staple foods in the Republic of Burundi, where food security is at risk. Sorghum is genetically adapted to hot and dry agroecologies and is used not only as food, but also as feed for poultry and cattle. There is a problem of increasing the yield of sorghum and reducing the high labor costs in its cultivation in the Republic of Burundi, since in general agriculture is characterized by a natural species with a predominance of food and seasonal crops, which occupy about 90 % of the cultivated land. Traditional African agriculture is based on a system with individual elements of intensive farming and is not well prepared for the use of high-tech machinery and tools of production. On the plots of a peasant family of about 0,8 hectares (two acres) with the help of a hoe and a machete with a shift farming system, the yield of sorghum reaches 1,0 ... 1,3 t / ha. For peasant farms in the form of production cooperatives with an area of 200 ... 300 hectares, where it is possible to conduct intensive farming and to use of modern technical units of high productivity in order to increase yields several times, there was proposed the Mounted discochisel harrow developed in the Kuban State Agrarian University. The harrow consists of a three-girder frame, brackets, a disc module, disc rippers, a chisel module, chisel rippers and a packer roller. Its purpose of peeling, plowing and seedbed cultivation, thanks to a special regulating mechanism, is performed by the unit in one pass. This will help to achieve lower operating and energy costs due to the fact that tillage work is carried out in a very short time.

Keywords

the Republic of Burundi / sorghum / yield / main tillage / three-girder frame / bracket / disc module / cultivator / chisel module / packing wheel

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Tarasenko B.F.