Green Manuring

• Prior to rice cultivation sowing of daincha (Sesbania aculeata) or Manila agathi (Sesbania rostrata)
  seeds @ 40 kg/ha by broadcasting as green manure and in situ incorporation at 50% flowering.

Green manure incorporation

Field Preparation :

• Puddle the land thrice with country plough or power tiller after 15 days of incorporation of green/green leaf manure.

Puddling

• Level the field for proper water and weed management.

Levelling

Spacing:

25 cm x 25 cm

Nutrient Management

• Basal application of Rock phosphate @ 250 kg/ha, Gypsum @ 500 kg /ha, Neem cake @ 250 kg/ha, Azospirillum @ 2 kg/ha and Phosphobacteria @ 2 kg/ha
• Top dressing with vermicompost @ 1 ton / ha at tillering, panicle initiation and heading stage
• Foliar spray of Panchagavya @ 3 % at tillering and panicle initiation stage



Panchagavya

Weed Management

• Flood the field for 2-3 day after transplanting and a 5 cm water depth should be maintained throughout the growing season if weeds are problem in that area.
• Calotropis gigantea as green leaf manure checks the growth of the weed Marsilea quadrifolia.
• Cultivating Sesbania aculeata or S. rostrata as an intercrop between two paddy crop rows for biological N fixation and weed smothering.
• Use of cono weeder thrice at 7-10 days interval from 15 days after planting on either direction of the rows.
• Release of ducklings (200 Nos./ha) from 20 days after planting up to two months to reduce the manual labour needed for weeding, also feed on insects and their egg masses.