How to Grow - Paddy

How to Grow

Preparation of Soil

 

• Paddy can be grown in any type of soil, which can retain moisture.
• Weeds can be avoided by preparation of the main field by ploughing, puddling and leveling land before transplantation

Sowing

• To prepare seedling in the nursery bed with 200 sq m(5 cents) area for sowing 10 kgs seed/acre for variety and 6 kg/ac for hybrid, the seedbed can be prepared through ploughing and puddling Excess water can be drained out through preparation of 50 cm wide channels on all sides.
• 20 – 25 days seedlings with 2 seedlings per hill for varieties and 1 seedling/hill for hybrid may be planted with at least 33 hills/sq m in Kharif and 44 hills/sq m in Rabi.
• For better sunlight and aeration to crop an alley of 20 cms for every 2 m of planting should be provided with a shallow depth of 2-3 cms.

Fertilizer application

• Fertilizers 50:20:20 kg NPK per acre during kharif and 60:25:25 kg NPK/acre during Rabi is generally recommended, but can be modified based on soil tests.
• 1/3rd Nit rogen fertilizers should be applied in the final puddling , approximately 30 days after planting and at the primordial initiation (60-70) days after planting. While pudding the entire phosphatic fertilizers can be applied @ 20 kg/ac during kharif and 25kg/ac during rubi.
• Potash @ 20kg/ac can be applied during pudding. In heavy soils Potash @ 20 kg/ac and in light soils & Potash @ 25 kg/ac ac can be appied. It can be applied in spilt doses along with Nitrogenous fertilizers.
• Zinc can be applied during alternative kharif season @ 20kg Znso4/ac in the final pudding before planting. In saline areas, 100 kg Zinc Sulphate or 10 kg Chelated Zinc may be applied.

Irrigation

• For growing paddy crop, it is not necessary to have a water flooded field, but there should be enough moisture in soil.
• Critical stages for irrigation are Tillering, Panicle initiation, Heading and Flowering

Crop Management

• Weed Control Weed growth can be prevented by applying 500 ml of Pretalachlor or 35 gms of Topstar/acre 2-3 days after planting or 4 kg of Butachlor + 4 kg of 2, 4 – DEE/ acre can be applied and mixed in 30 kg of sand 3-5 days after planting to prevent monocots and dicots if it is a problem.
• For direct seeded rice pre-emergence application Pendimethalin 1 ltr. or Topstar 35 gms/acre may be applied 3 days after sowing at adequate soil moisture. Pest Management – Stemborer Choloropyriphos (1.5 ml) or Monocrotophos (1.6 ml) or Phosphamidon (2.0 ml) or Acephate (1.5g) or Cartap Hydrochloride (2g)/ltr of water should be sprayed or 8 kg Cartap Hydrochloride 46 granules or 10 kg Carbofuran 36 granules can be applied. Disease mgt – Blast Triciclyzole, Kasugamycin 2 ml or ISO prothiolane 1.5 ml mixed in one litre watercan be sprayed

Harvesting, Storage and Drying

• To get best milling recovery the crop should be harvested 30 days after flowering and dried in shade.

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Chairman participates in 6th National Seed Congress

Lucknow: The 6^th National Seed Congress was held in Lucknow last week. It dwelt on major issues related to agriculture, most important being production of genetically modified (GM) crops and high yielding variety of seeds. Mr. Akhilesh Yadav, Honorable CM of Uttar Pradesh, was the chief guest at the sixth edition of the congress which was hosted in UP for the first time.

Our Chairman Mr. M Prabhakar Rao presented a lead paper on ‘Seed Planning – Private Sector Perspective’. Appreciating India’s growth in Seed market from 2005 to 2012, Chairman suggested that conventional breeding supported by biotech tools in all crops suitable to all agro-climatic zones and improving the seed replacement rate (SRR) through farmer extension education programmes in PPP mode will help continue the momentum.

Chairman added, “India has tremendous potential to supply quality seed to international markets. This can be achieved through aggressively perusing the introduction of existing hybrids into similar agro-climatic regions like SAARC and South East Asian countries and actively taking forward the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) initiated by Ministry of Agriculture”.

Visit of Nigerian Delegates

On Monday, a Nigerian delegation team, Mr. Damilola Eniaiyeju, Director- Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Mr. Anibe Achimugu, MD, Arewa cotton and allied products co. ltd. visited Nuziveedu Seeds’ plant at Kothur, Hyderabad. Dr. P Sateesh Kumar, Director – R&D, Nuziveedu Seeds and Mr. Ch Narayana Swamy, Plant head, welcomed the delegates and took them around our facilities including cob drying, processing and packing. The Nigerian delegates were quite impressed with the salient features of NSL’s plant. At Kothur plant, processing and packaging of field crops including Maize, Paddy, Sorghum, Pearl millet, Sunflower, Fodder Jowar and Castor is done. It also has the facility to process cotton seed.
The plant has conditioned storage facility with full power back up to ensure seeds are stored for longer periods. Seed testing lab at Kothur is equipped with full infrastructure and tested 48,000 samples per annum. We verify quality parameters of seeds such as physical appearance, moisture, physical purity, germination and vigour etc. We simultaneously test the seeds at the field for germination.

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Mustard

Mustard (Brassica spp.), a native to temperate regions of Europe, was one of the first domesticated crops. This crop’s economic value resulted in its wide dispersal and it has been grown as a herb in Asia, North Africa, and Europe for thousands of years. Mustard has been cultivated as early as 5000 BC. Brassica (rapeseed‐mustard) is the second most important edible oilseed crop in India after groundnut and accounts for nearly 30% of the total oilseeds produced in the country. India is one of the largest rapeseed‐mustard growing countries in the world, accounting for 21.7 % and 10.7% of the total acreage and production occupying the first position in Area and second position in Production after China. The most important states growing these crops are Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Haryana, Punjab, Orissa, Assam, Bihar, Gujarat and West Bengal. The world production of Rapeseed/Mustard has been increasing at a rapid rate in several countries largely in response to the continuing increase in demand for edible oils and its products.

New Maize Products

   

Maize was the first major cereal crop in human civilization to be affected by hybridization. It is the most widely distributed crop of world being grown in diverse seasons and ecologies with highest production and productivity among food cereals. It is grown in about 166 countries occupying 165 mha area with production of more than 800 million tons and productivity of 5.1 tons/ha. It is used worldwide for about 3500 products of different uses as feed (61%), food (17%) and also serves as a source of basic raw material of number of industries (22%) viz., starch, ethanol, oil, alcoholic beverages, food sweeteners, pharma, cosmetics etc. No other cereal can be used in such many ways as maize.