The Complete Guide for Planting and Sustaining Rice Production

Things that you must know and needed to prepare in order to have a successful rice production in your farm. Rice production for direct seeded and transplanted rice. Cultural practices that are still suitable in rice production.

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Rice Production Guide and Procedures

The Philippines main crop during rainy season is rice, and Filipinos are rice eating people, that is why the demand of rice is high. There are several varieties of rice available in the country today, there are a lot of it in the province of Nueva Ecija, the Philippine’s rice granary.

There are two ways of planting rice;

1. Direct seeding- directly sow in the field, sustain and nurture it until harvest.

2. Transplanted- sow in a seedbed first, then transplanted after 15-30 days.

Select rice seeds suited for the period, climate, and soil texture of the farm. Find the seeds of your choice, be sure to obtain them from good source. Prepare your inputs; seeds, fertilizer, insecticide, fungicide, and foliar fertilizer, they are essential to obtain high or your target harvest.

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For direct seeding, prepare the area to be planted, plowing it then apply water to loosen the soil then make it plain by using rotavator, harrow, or hand tractor. Put levees if needed to control the level of water, you may spray 3k fertilizer to speed up the conversion of plant remains into organic materials needed by the plant. Three days before the scheduled direct seeding, soak the seeds in water for twenty-four hours, replace the water every twelve hours if you’re using drum or basin. After twenty-four hours remove the water from the basin, put it in a shady part, cover it to avoid direct exposure to sunlight, check it after twenty-four hours if there is a sign of germination, if the roots began to come out, it is now ready to be sown. Put about two to three inches’ water deep to the area to be direct seeded to avoid dislocation of seeds during unexpected rainfall, then drain the water after fifteen hours to allow the seeds fast germination.

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For transplanted rice, prepare the seedbed, while preparing the seedbed you may now soak the seeds for twenty fours, same process done in direct seeding seeds of rice. The quantity of rice seeds sown in a seedbed depend on how thick and wide is the spacing you desire in planting rice.

For example, you may prepare 120-130 kilos 15 x 15 meters of seedbed for 1 hectare.

Here are the activities and schedule to take note in rice production for 1-hectare rice field;

Activity	Schedule	Needed Materials	Required Manpower
Land preparation 1-2x plowing	1-2 weeks before transplanting. 1-2 weeks before sowing	Tractor with stable or rotavator	1-2 persons
Preparing and fixing levees	1 week before planting or transplanting	Plow, string, and shovel	3 persons
Preparing field for sowing and transplanting/ spraying 3k fertilizer	2-3 days before sowing and transplanting	Hand tractor, rotavator, and sprayer	3 persons
Sowing and transplanting	Zero days of seeds 15-25 days of seedlings	Sower and Trans planter	Machine, or 10 persons for transplanting 3 persons for sowing
First application of fertilizer	1 week after sowing or trans planting	100kg urea and 50kg complete fertilizer	3 persons
Herbicide application, depends on weeds growth and quantity	Pre-emergence herbicide 1-2 days after transplanting. Post-emergence, 2-3 weeks after transplanting or sowing	Pre-emergence Machete. Post-emergence with broad leaves and grasses Nominee one, Grasses Finale	2-3 persons
Second application of fertilizer	For yellowish and smaller rice plant after application of herbicide	50 kg urea	1-2 persons
Foliar application	3-4 weeks after sowing or transplanting	3k fertilizer, chelated calcium, anaa, silwet	2-3 persons
Foliar application and insecticide	7 weeks after sowing or transplanting	Anaa, 3k fertilizer, power grower combo, silwet, cartap	1-2 persons
Last application of fertilizer	8 weeks after sowing 8-9 after transplanting	100 kg urea	1-2 person
Last application of foliar and insecticide	10 weeks, or at panicle initiation	Anaa, chelated calcium, 3k fertilizer, heavyweight tandem, prevathon, and silwet	1-2 persons