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Influencing factors and GIS-based spatial interpolation for distribution of draught animals in Madhya Pradesh


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The study investigates the trend and spatial distribution of the draught animal population in Madhya Pradesh, situated at lat. 21.6°N to 26.30°N and long. 74°90¢E to 82°48¢E. Draught animals dominated around 20% (3 million hectares) of the net sown area of Madhya Pradesh, with power availability of more than 0.37 kW/ha. A 1% increase in tractor density reduces the draught animals by 0.89%, and a 1% increase in percentage forest area increases the draught animals by more than 0.5%. The spherical form of the semivariogram model with an estimate of nugget, sill and range as 0, 500 and 1.6 respectively, was used in kriging. The neighbour search radius and the minimum number of neighbours were taken as 3° and 20 respectively.
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  • Influencing factors and GIS-based spatial interpolation for distribution of draught animals in Madhya Pradesh

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Authors

Manoj Kumar
Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal 462 038, India
U. C. Dubey
Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal 462 038, India
Bikram Jyoti
Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal 462 038, India
Ajay Kumar Roul
Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Bhopal 462 038, India

Abstract


The study investigates the trend and spatial distribution of the draught animal population in Madhya Pradesh, situated at lat. 21.6°N to 26.30°N and long. 74°90¢E to 82°48¢E. Draught animals dominated around 20% (3 million hectares) of the net sown area of Madhya Pradesh, with power availability of more than 0.37 kW/ha. A 1% increase in tractor density reduces the draught animals by 0.89%, and a 1% increase in percentage forest area increases the draught animals by more than 0.5%. The spherical form of the semivariogram model with an estimate of nugget, sill and range as 0, 500 and 1.6 respectively, was used in kriging. The neighbour search radius and the minimum number of neighbours were taken as 3° and 20 respectively.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.18520/cs%2Fv123%2Fi3%2F488-492