• Prepare the slurry with 5 packets (1 kg/ha) each of Azospirillum and Phosphobacteria or 5 packets of (1 kg/ha) Azophos inoculant in 40 lit. of water and dip the root portion of the seedlings for 15 - 30 minutes in bacterial suspension and transplant.

Planting seedlings in the main field

Soil

High fertility

Duration

Long

Spacing (cm) Hills / m 2

20x20 25

Transplant 2-3 seedlings/hill for short duration and 2 seedlings/hill for medium and long duration varieties.

• Transplant 2-3 seedlings/hill for short duration and 2 seedlings/hill for medium and long duration varieties.

Shallow planting (3 cm) ensures quick establishment and more tillers.

• Shallow planting (3 cm) ensures quick establishment and more tillers.
• Deeper planting (> 5cm) leads to delayed establishment and reduced tillers.
• Line planting permits rotary weeding and its associated benefits.
• Allow a minimum row spacing of 20 cm to use rotary weeder.
• Fill up the gaps between 7th and 10th DAT.

Deeper planting (> 5cm) leads to delayed establishment and reduced tillers.

Line planting permits rotary weeding and its associated benefits.

Allow a minimum row spacing of 20 cm to use rotary weeder.

Fill up the gaps between 7th and 10th DAT.

Management of Aged seedlings*

*Which developed tillers / underwent node elongation in the nursery itself and about half of its leaf producing capacity may be already over.

Follow the spacing recommended to medium and low fertility soil.

• Follow the spacing recommended to medium and low fertility soil.
• Plant two to three seedlings per hill
• Avoid cluster planting of aged seedlings, which are hindering the formation of new tillers.
• New tillers alone are capable of producing normal harvestable panicle. Weak panicle may appear in the mother culm within three weeks after transplanting and vanishes well before harvest.
• To encourage the tiller production, enhance the basal N application by 50% from the recommended and thereafter follow the normal schedule recommended for other stages.

Plant two to three seedlings per hill Avoid cluster planting of aged seedlings, which are hindering the formation of new tillers. New tillers alone are capable of producing normal harvestable panicle. Weak panicle may appear in the mother culm within three weeks after transplanting and vanishes well before harvest. To encourage the tiller production, enhance the basal N application by 50% from the recommended and thereafter follow the normal schedule recommended for other stages.

Avoid cluster planting of aged seedlings, which are hindering the formation of new tillers. New tillers alone are capable of producing normal harvestable panicle. Weak panicle may appear in the mother culm within three weeks after transplanting and vanishes well before harvest. To encourage the tiller production, enhance the basal N application by 50% from the recommended and thereafter follow the normal schedule recommended for other stages.

New tillers alone are capable of producing normal harvestable panicle. Weak panicle may appear in the mother culm within three weeks after transplanting and vanishes well before harvest. To encourage the tiller production, enhance the basal N application by 50% from the recommended and thereafter follow the normal schedule recommended for other stages.

To encourage the tiller production, enhance the basal N application by 50% from the recommended and thereafter follow the normal schedule recommended for other stages.

Fill the gaps if any within 7 - 10 days after planting.

• Fill the gaps if any within 7 - 10 days after planting.