Agronomical cultivation operation works from land preparation to harvest, postharvest handling, seed production in crops like paddy, pulses, millets, oilseeds and other field crops in the Government Seed Farms

LAND PREPARATION

Dry Ploughing of field for crop cultivation using tractor (per acre)

a. Using Cultivator (One Round)

b. Using Rotovator (One Round)

Dry Ploughing of field for crop cultivation using power tiller (per acre per Round)

CROP : PADDY

Preparation of paddy nursery field, sowing of seeds and management for manual planting (per cent)

Preparation of paddy nursery field, sowing of seeds and management for machine planting (per cent)

Puddling of paddy fields

a. Using Tractor and Cage wheel (One Round)

b.Using Tractor, half cagewheel and rotovator(One Round)

Wet Ploughing of paddy field for crop cultivation using power tiller (per acre per Round)

Trimming and plastering of bunds around paddy fileds (per acre)

Levelling of paddy fileds (per acre)

Pulling out of seedlings from paddy nursery and placement of seedlings in the field (per cent)

Planting of paddy crop in mainfield

a. Random planting (per acre)

b. Line planting (per acre)

c. Machine planting including transportation of seedlings (per acre)

First hand weeding (per acre)

Second hand weeding (per acre)

Mechanical weeding (per acre)

First roguing (per acre)

Second roguing (per acre)

Harvesting of paddy crop

a. Manual harvest (rate per 30 kg bag of produce harvested)

b. Machine harvest and weighing of harvested produce (per acre)

Post harvest Handling

a. Drying to 10.5% moisture content, winnowing, weighing, packing and numbering of paddy FRP (per ton)

b. Bundling of paddy starw in fileds using tractor baler (per bale)

c. Transporting and stacking of paddy straw from field to farm campus (per bale)

d. Shfiting of produce between godowns (per ton)

CROP: Pulses, Millets,Oil seeds Green Manure and other field crops

Raised bed nursery formation, sowing and management (per cent)

Formation of ridges and furrow

a. At 1.5 ft X 1.5 ft spacing (per acre)

b. At 2 ft X 2 ft spacing (per acre)

Formation of beds

a. size of 5 m X 5 m (per acre)

b. size of 7.5 m X 7.5 m (per acre)

c. size of 10 m X 10 m (per acre)

Dry sowing of seeds (Broadcasting and covering of the seed) (per acre)

Dry sowing of seeds (Line sowing and covering of the seed)) (per acre)

Manual planting of seedling from raised bed nursery

a. Random planting (per acre)

b. Line planting (per acre)

Weeding by hand hoe (per acre)

Intercultivation and Earthing up (per acre)

Harvesting of field crops ( per acre )

a. Pulses (Black gram, grren gram, Cowpea, horsegram)

b. Millets (Ragi, Thenai, vargagu, Sorghum, Maize)

c. Oilseeds (Sesame, Sunflower)

d. Green manures (Daincha, Sesbania,Kavalai, Naripayiru)

Thrashing, cleaning, winnowing, drying, weighing, packing and numbering of field crops ( per acre )

a. Pulses (Black gram, grren gram, Cowpea, horsegram)

b. Millets (Ragi, Thenai, vargagu, Sorghum, Maize)

c. Oilseeds (Sesame, Sunflower)

d. Green manures (Daincha, Sesbania,Kavalai, Naripayiru)

Fertiliser application (per acre)

a. Broadcasting

b. Spot application

Pesticide/weedicide spraying (per acre)

Irrigation and drainage management (per acre per season)

a. Paddy crop

b. Pure Pulses (Black gram, grren gram, Cowpea, horsegram)

c. Millets (Ragi, Thenai, vargagu, Sorghum, Maize)

d. Oilseeds (Sesame, Sunflower)

e. Green manures (Daincha, Sesbania,Kavalai, Naripayiru)

RAJENDIRAN K

KARUNANITHI A