Reuters Business News published an article writing that the lack of farmworkers due to the COVID-19 lockdowns and the exit of immigrants forced farmers to change the way they work their farms, such as irrigating the field just enough to moisten the soil and leased a drilling machine to directly sow seeds.
Mechanization is predicted to be the next farm revolution in India. Senior Research Fellow Avinash Kishore said if this year’s crop was good, DSR (direct-seeding of rice) would be the way forward. “The scale of this year’s shift to the DSR is a momentous change in rice cultivation in India.”