The adoption of information and communication technologies for knowledge-based agricultural production is becoming necessary tool in order to respond to numerous challenges of agricultural sector. The importance and needs of developing decision support systems for farm management have already been recognized by the policy makers and by the end users i.e. the farmers also. A decision support system PAU_TRACPWR has been developed using detailed data information on crop production parameters for major crops being grown in India, tractor prices, crop values, labour charges and crop-wise adoption level of various farm technologies. The critical tractor power requirements would increase to 56.22 million kW by 2025. The adoption of improved technologies in tillage and sowing, new harvesting equipment like tractor operated cotton picker, sugarcane harvesters, crop residue managing equipment would help in bringing down the total tractor power requirements in the region with immediate interventions by farmers, developers and policy makers.
Farm management, decision support system, crop production, power requirement
