Agriculture Reference
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Table 7.5
(continued)
Item No.
Item specifications
Unit
Quantity
Required man-days
Material (mdeq)
US
SS
SK
2-3
Construction of loose-stone check dams, including laying humus, litter, and clay on
upstream surface to make it impervious, and pitching downstream in loose stones
over a distance of 5 m in 30 cm thickness, where stones have to be collected and
fetched from an average distance of 100 m
m
3
750
600
2-4
Making of saucers around regenerating young plants, 1 m in diameter with
crescent-shaped ridge on downside, with orientation of ridge opening looking up
the slope, base of ridge being 35 cm wide, and mid-ridge height being 25 cm, where
(a) Soil is of hardness class S-1, S-2, or S-3
nos.
1,000
10
(b) Soil is of hardness class S-4 or S-5
nos.
500
6
2-5
Procurement of seeds of superior quality from plus trees of the following species to
be sown on keylines:
(a)
Acacia senegal
kg
17
25
(b)
Zyzyphus nummularia
kg
35
8
(c)
Acacia leucophloea
kg
3
2
2-6
Sowing in field
Sowing of seeds on bunds of contour trenches and the trench along the fence, in two
parallel lines and with equal spacing of 15 cm between two seeds by dibbling seeds
directly into soil, of the following species:
(a)
Acacia senegal
r-m
25,000
38
(b)
Zyzyphus nummularia
r-m
25,000
38
(c)
Acacia leucophloea
r-m
16,000
24
2-7
Sowing of seeds of the following species in notches made in cracks in rocks or other
pockets of soil available in rocky terrain, including making a 6 in. deep and wide
notch and dibbling the seed into the soil:
(a)
Acacia senegal
nos.
10,000
40
(b)
Prosopis juliflora
10,000
40
2-8
Loading of plants in polypots into animal-drawn vehicle such as bullock or camel
cart, while taking care to avoid shock or damage to plants, with a horizontal lead
not exceeding 30 m, the polypots being of size 12
nos.
24,000
19
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