🌾 Paddy (Rice) – Cultivation Guidelines

🌦 Climate

• Warm and humid climate is ideal for paddy cultivation.
  
  
• Optimum temperature: 25°C–35°C.
  
  
• Excess rainfall or dry winds can affect yield.
  
  

🌱 Soil

• Medium to heavy clay loam soil is best suited.
  
  
• Fields capable of retaining water are ideal.
  
  
• Soil pH: 5.5–7.0.
  
  

🌾 Varieties

• Kharif: G.R. 7, G.R. 11, G.R. 101, G.R. 104, G.R. 102
  
  
• Rabi/Summer: G.R. 4, G.R. 6, Navsari – 1
  
  

🌾 Sowing Time

• Kharif: June – July
  
  
• Rabi/Summer: December – January
  
  

🌿 Transplanting

• Transplant seedlings 20–25 days after sowing.
  
  
• Spacing: 20 × 15 cm (3 seedlings per hill).
  
  

💧 Irrigation

• Maintain 5 cm standing water after transplanting.
  
  
• Irrigate especially during flowering and grain filling.
  
  
• Gradually drain water before harvesting.
  
  

🧪 Fertilizer Management

• FYM/Compost: 10–15 tons/ha.
  
  
• NPK @ 100:50:50 kg/ha.
  
  
• Apply nitrogen in three splits: at sowing, 25 days, and 50 days.
  
  

🌿 Weed Management

• Pendimethalin @ 1 L/acre within 3 days of transplanting.
  
  
• Hand weeding at 20 and 40 days after transplanting.
  
  

🦠 Disease Control

• Blast: Spray Tricyclazole 0.06%.
  
  
• Sheath blight: Hexaconazole 5% EC or Mancozeb 0.25%.
  
  
• Brown leaf spot: Carbendazim 0.1%.
  
  

🐛 Insect Control

• Stem borer: Apply Carbofuran 3% G @ 25 kg/ha.
  
  
• Leaf folder: Imidacloprid 17.8% SL.
  
  
• Brown planthopper: Acephate @ 1 g/L water.
  
  

🌾 Harvesting

• Harvest when the crop turns golden-yellow and grains are hard.
  
  
• Dry up to 14% moisture before storage.
  
  

⚠️ Special Note

The above practices are based on agricultural university and scientific recommendations. Crop yield depends on weather, soil, irrigation, pest and disease control, and other natural conditions. The seed company will not be responsible for any loss due to uncontrollable factors.