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RESEARCH REPOSITORY This is the author’s final version of the work, as accepted for publication following peer review but without the publisher’s layout or pagination. The definitive version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0014479717000370 Bell, R.W., Haque, M.E., Johansen, C., Vance, W., Kabir, M.E., Musa, M.A., Mia, M.N.N., Neogi, M.G. and Islam, M.A. (2017) Mechanised minimum soil disturbance establishment and yield of diverse crops in paddy fields using a two- wheel tractor-mounted planter for smallholder cropping. Experimental Agriculture, 54 (5). pp. 755-773. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/38189 Copyright: © 2017 Cambridge University Press It is posted here for your personal use. No further distribution is permitted. Expl Agric. (2017), volume 0 (0), pp. 1–19 C Cambridge University Press 2017 doi:10.1017/S0014479717000370 1 MECHANISED MINIMUM SOIL DISTURBANCE 2 ESTABLISHMENT AND YIELD OF DIVERSE CROPS IN 3 PADDY FIELDS USING A TWO-WHEEL 4 TRACTOR-MOUNTED PLANTER SUITABLE FOR 5 SMALLHOLDER CROPPING Q1 † ‡ † 6 By R. W. BELL ¶¶, M. E. HAQUE ,C.JOHANSEN§, W. VANCE , 7 M. E. KABIR†¶, M. A. MUSA††,M.N.N.MIA‡,M.G.NEOGI‡‡ 8 and M. A. ISLAM†§§ 9 †School of Veterinary and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Murdoch, WA 6150 Australia, 10 ‡Murdoch University and Conservation Agriculture Project, 2nd Floor, House 4/C, Road 7B 11 Sector 9, Uttara, Dhaka, Bangladesh, §15 Westgate Court, Leeming, WA 6149 Australia, 12 ¶Khulna University, Khulna, Bangladesh, ††PROVA, Upashahar, Rajshahi, Bangladesh, 13 ‡‡RDRS, Jail Road, Rangpur, Bangladesh and §§Pulse Research Centre, Bangladesh Agricultural 14 Research Institute, Ishurdi, Pabna, Bangladesh Q2 15 (Accepted 19 June 2017) 16 SUMMARY 17 Shortages of hired labour are leading to greater interest in mechanisation for crop establishment in 18 smallholder agriculture.
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