NSL Inaugurates Cod Drying and Conditioned Facility

NSL has inaugurated India’s biggest cob drying unit with a capacity of 1500MT in the month of February. Along with this, it also inaugurated 3800MT capacity conditioned storage facility at its Kothur plant near Hyderabad. With the new facility, NSL can dry wet cobs of about 375 MT/ day and the gas required for this purpose is generated by using maize shank as bio fuel with the help of Gasifier. It helps reducing the cost of drying to a great extent. With the help of extended conditioned storage facility, field crops can be stored for a period of 2 years and cotton for 7 years by maintaining required temperatures. The inauguration was attended by Mr. S R M Prasad, GM-SCM and Mr. Katti Laxminarsimha, GM-Projects, who performed pooja. Entire NSL family from Kothur and Kompally attended the event.

Seed Technology Trainees from ANGRAU Visit NSL

On 29th of January, a team of 30 trainees headed by Smt. J Jhansi Rani, Professor, Seed Technology Division from Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar visited Kothur plant to have a practical exposure on “Seed Quality Assurance for Better Productivity”. They were briefed about all the activities at the plant i.e Cob drying facilities, Processing, Packing, Cold storage facilities and Seed Testing by Mr. Ch Narayana Swamy, AGM-QA & Sri U Madhusudhan, Dy Manager-QA.
The team felt that it was a great experience to go through all the activities as it has given them the practical exposure of Seed Production and has gained knowledge about cob drying, storage conditioned etc.

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NSL’s Production Team Visit to Odisha

A 12-member team from supply chain management (SCM) and quality department headed by Mr. S R M Prasad, GM (SCM), visited varietal paddy production fields near Bargarh, Odisha, recently. It was a thorough inspection aimed at maintaining good quality of paddy seed at the field level. The team has toured extensively to cover 4000 acre of paddy fields and interacted with farmers, breeders, field staff and production staff.
The production of varietal Paddy consists of various varieties like PRN-1024, PRN-429, PRN-410 and new varieties introduced this time are PRN-436, PRN-434 and PRN-1121 etc.
Mr. Dharmajit Kanungo (RM Marketing), Mr. Ch Nagayana Swamy, AGM Quality and Mr. Bidhunandan Dash, Plant Manager, Bargarh and other Production officers of Bargarh participated in the field visit.

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NSL’s Production Team Visit to Odisha

Sunflower Seeds

Sunflower

Sunflower is one of the most important oil seed crop grown in temperate countries. It is a major source of vegetable oil in the world. In India it has gained popularity due to the national priority of vegetable oil production. India is one of the largest producers of oilseed crop in the world. Oilseeds occupy an important position in the Indian agricultural economy.

Sunflower is one of the fastest growing oilseed crops in India. It occupies fourth place among oilseed crops in terms of acreage and production. Farmers find sunflower as a highly profitable crop, especially in Southern peninsula, consisting of Northern Karnataka, Marathwada and Rayalseema, where the crop is largely cultivated under rainfed conditions during late kharif/rabi season. Due to its short duration, it ideally is sown more between August and October. Karnataka accounts for nearly half the area under sunflower in the country.

Sunflower oil is considered as premium when compared to other vegetable oils. Sunflower is the oil of preference among the consumers the world over due to its health appeal and in India too, sunflower oil is the largest selling oil in the branded oil segment. Sunflower is also a crop of choice for farmers due to its wider adaptability, high yield potential, shorter duration and profitability.

Nuziveedu Seeds – Adding Value through research

Nuziveedu Seeds aims to enrich the potential of this already highly popular and winner of a crop. Keeping the specific customer in mind who cultivate this crop Nuziveedu Seeds is developing new seed products that will offer

• High yielding hybrids with high oil percentage
• Tolerance to biotic & abiotic stresses.

Wheat

How to Grow - Cotton

 

How To Grow

Preparation of Soil

• Light to heavy black soils is suitable for cotton cultivation, can also be successfully grown in light and alluvial soils.

Sowing

• Sowing period is generally May-July
• Seed rate is 1.6-2 packets/acre
• Spacing- 90-105 cm between rows, 45-60 cm between plants in black soils and 30-45 cm in light soils.
• Gap Filling Gap filling must be done as early as possible by using 2 seeds/hill.

Fertilizer application

• NPK as per the table given below.
• Magnesium Deficiency Magnesium Sulphate @ 10g/ ltr. at 45 and 75 DAS may be sprayed to correct the deficiency
• Zinc Deficiency Zinc Sulphate @ 2g/ltr. may be sprayed twice at 5-6 day interval immediately after the deficiency symptoms are noticed.
• Boron Deficiency Spray Borax @ 60 and 90 DAS at 1-1.5 g/litre of water

Irrigation

• Adequate moisture availability during the critical stages of crop growth i.e., germination, seedling growth, flowering, boll formation and development are ensured.
• Cotton is susceptible to water stagnation for long duration, and therefore, care should be taken to drain the excess water from the field and intercultural operations should be done at the earliest.

Crop Management

• Disease Management – Cotton crop is affected by Alternaria blight, Phoma blight, Cercospora leaf spot, Helminthosporium leaf spot and Blackarm diseases after 90 to 100 days of crop growth.
• These can be controlled by spraying with Mancozeb (2.5g/ltr.) or Copper Oxychloride (3g/ltr.) + Plantamycin or Tetracycline or Paushamycin (100 mg/l).

Harvesting, Storage and Drying

• In India it is by manual picking, but cotton picking

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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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