VARIOUS SEASONAL AGRICULTURE/FARM OPERATION WORKS

Amount

Nursery

Seed bed preparation and sowing of rice nursery (Bund trimming, preparation of raised seed bed, line sowing of seed and proper covering of the sown materials) arrangement of seed samples for sowing in the nursery bed (Upto 50)

Seed bed preparation and sowing of rice nursery (Bund trimming, preparation of raised seed bed, line sowing of seed and proper covering of the sown materials) arrangement of seed samples for sowing in the nursery bed (more than 50)

Field/Pot/Tray preparation

Field preparation (Ploughing/Puddling, initial followed by the final) by using office Tractor with fuel.

Field preparation (Ploughing/Puddling, once) by using office Power Tiller with fuel

Field bund raising and side trimming of 25c.m. width X 25c.m. height

Field bund raising and side trimming of 50c.m. width x 50c.m. height

Field bund raising and side trimming of 60c.m. width x 30c.m. height

Making bunds between sub-plot treatments and putting of plastic sheets/films for creation of barriers to prevent flow of wtaer, fertilizer etc.

Puddling by spade in the area where Tractor and Bullock operation are not possible such as Cement Tanks and Swampy land

Earth work (repair/trimming or bunds/trenches, hand leveling of plots and trial plotting)

Land leveling/laddering (After Ploughing/Puddling by using Farm Bullocks)

Field leveling with spade

Pot preparation (collection of soils, filling of pots up to 3/4 th depth) [6” X 6” size]

Pot preparation (collection of soils, filling of pots up to 3/4 th depth) [8” X 8” size]

Pot preparation(collection of soils, filling of pots up to 3/4 th depth) [10”X10” to 12”x12”size]

Preparation of tray (soil filling) and seed sowing (Tray size: 30”X18”X15”)

Maintenance of potted plant in greenhouse/Net house: Collection of soil, preparation and filling of pots, sowing, watering, maintenance of virulent inoculums of blast on rice plant, spraying botanical extracts/chemicals and overall maintenance (standard size)

Main field Sowing/ transplanting

Seedling, uprooting and line transplanting of rice 10c.m. X 15c.m. (Uprooting of seedlings and making of bundles, carrying seedling from seed bed area to the planting place, line transplanting of single plant or two to three seedlings/ hill including rope holding)

Seedling, uprooting and line transplanting of rice 10c.m. X 20c.m. (Uprooting of seedlings and making of bundles, carrying seedling from seed bed area to the planting place, line transplanting of single plant or two to three seedlings/ hill including rope holding)

Seedling, uprooting and line transplanting of rice 15c.m. X 15c.m. (Uprooting of seedlings and making of bundles, carrying seedling from seed bed area to the planting place, line transplanting of single plant or two to three seedlings/ hill including rope holding)

Seedling, uprooting and line transplanting of rice 15c.m. X 20c.m. (Uprooting of seedlings and making of bundles, carrying seedling from seed bed area to the planting place, line transplanting of single plant or two to three seedlings/ hill including rope holding)

Seedling, uprooting and line Transplanting(Experimental plots):Transplanting of rice in experimental plots where numbers of varieties to be transplanted more than 30 varieties in one plot (Uprooting of seedlings and making of bundles, carrying seedling from seed bed area to the planting place, line transplanting of single plant or two to three seedlings/hill including rope holding). Distance of planting is to be maintained as per the direction of the Indenter.

Direct sowing in dry soil (Both rice and non-rice crops like green gram, black gram, soybean, cowpea, maize etc.)

Line sowing with 3 – 5 seed/hill including rope holding (15c.m. X 20c.m.)

Line sowing with 3 – 5 seed/hill including rope holding (10c.m. X 15c.m.)

Line sowing with 3 – 5 seed/hill including rope holding (10c.m. X 20c.m.)

Line sowing with 3 – 5 seed/hill including rope holding (15c.m. X 15c.m.)

Intercultural operations

Gap filling

Hand weeding in transplanted rice (Once)

Mechanical weeding with Cono Weeder (Once)

Weeding in direct seeded rice (twice i.e. 20 days and 40 days after seedling)

Weeding in non-rice crops

Cleaning and maintenance of Irrigation and Drainage channels in and around the field.

Cleaning of drainage channel (4mt. wide & 2mt. depth) manually along with one herbicide spray

Cleaning of drainage channel (3mt. wide & 1 ½ mt. depth) along with one herbicide spray

Grass cutting and cleaning

Intercultural operation (Soil loosening between rows, ridge formation etc.) in non rice crops like groundnut and maize etc.

Fertilizer application (once)

Application of Pesticides (Broadcasting) in the experimental plots / Farm field

Spraying of Pesticides in the experimental plots / Farm field

Irrigation of experimental/ seed production plots

Irrigation of cement bunded demonstration plots of 20m x 5m size

Harvesting

Rice harvesting and threshing (Harvesting, carrying to the threshing floor, threshing, sun drying at least for 03 days and or till bringing down the grain moisture up to 12%, winnowing and bagging)

Harvesting (Experimental plots): Harvesting and threshing of rice in experimental plots where numbers of varieties transplanted more than 30 varieties in one plot (Harvesting, carrying to the threshing floor, threshing, sun drying at least for 03 days and or till bringing down the grain moisture up to 12%, winnowing and bagging)

Harvesting of Non-rice crops (Harvesting, carrying to the threshing floor, threshing, sun drying at least for 03 days and or till bringing down the grain moisture up to 12%, winnowing and bagging)

Harvesting by reaper, bundling, Transportation, Threshing, Winnowing, Cleaning and Drying grains to 12% moisture content (with office reaper and fuel)

Harvesting by combine, transportation, cleaning, bagging and drying grains to 12% moisture content (with office combine and fuel)

Trnsportation of combine harvested produce, cleaning, packing and drying upto 12% moisture content per acre

Specific operations

Crossing: Emasculation and pollination of spikelet to generate 40-50 F1 (crossed) seeds from each cross combinations

Rouging of the Off type plants (Once)

Carrying pots from outside to dark chamber/ heat chamber and bringing back after imposing treatment inside RGA/TGT.

Washing of soil samples with the help of Cobb’s sieving and decanting techniques

Bird scaring (6.00-10.00 AM in the morning and 3.00 – 6.00 PM in the evening hours)

Making conical heap of paddy straw (minimum 500 qtls)

Daily stock feeding of bulocks and regular interval (1unit of bulock shed consist of 10 adults bullocks) and daily cleaning and washing of bulock shed (600 sqft)

Paddy seed grading (seed loading in the grader machine, making seed packet of 30 kg/20 kg/10 kg/ 5 kg, stitching and stacking

Rising and washing of double layered polycarbonate sheets of OTCs (both inner and outer side) with detergent and cleansing solution

Carrying of gas sampling syringes, base plates and manual gas sampling chambers to fields, insertion to field plots for sampling. (for sampling of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide)

collection of intact rice plant, washing, and processing for fresh weight and dry weight of plant sample related to greenhouse gas sampling studies

Plant/ soil sampling and processing

Soil sampling from the field with spade upto 15 cm depth/plant sampling from the field

Soil sampling from field using augur/core sampler (undisturbed soil sample collection from field at depth interval up to 60cm.)

Sample harvesting and processing (Cutting of a hill, leaf separation, panicle detachment & packeting)

Whole root sampling from pots (standard size) / field, separation and washing

Collection of false smut infected panicles

Single panicle threshing without disturbing the false balls, separtion, counting and weighing of filled grain, chaffy grains and false smut balls

Identification of true-to-type panicle,their collection from farm field,threshing,cleaning & picketing for sowing

Threshing, cleaning and packing of panicles

Grain & sterile spikelet separation and counting of grain & chaff

Counting of panicles/M2

Counting and recording 100 grain weight recording grain length and width

Cleaning, de-husking, polishing, separation of whole rice and broken rice, grinding and sievingof grain power (for paddy grains)

Sample processing for micronutrient work (cleaning,drying,hulling,milling,weighing, digestion, filtration)

Sample processing for fresh plants parts for analysis of constituents (Collection of plant sample, separation and washing plant blotting grinding)

Grain sample preparation (cleaning, hulling, milling, separation of whole grain and brokens, powdering, sieving) evaluation for grain quality

Collection of transgenic plant samples from transgenic net house, their storage and processing of samples (from standard size pot)

Collection and storage of transgenic seeds, viability testing and discarding of transgenic material following standard procedures

Filling up tips in micro tip boxes followed by sterilization in autoclave

Tagging and collection of leaf samples in ice boxes from the field/net house

Powdering/grinding of Plant Sample

Collection of spikes for immature embryo/anther culture

Activities to be carried out continiously

Prepartion of mat type nursery

a) Labrotary maintenance involving cleaning of Lab. equipments, furniture, glass partition, storage racks etc. and spraying of miticide/fumigation b) Dusting cleaning of racks and tables arranging books on shelves in the library

Cleaning of glass wares and plastic wares

sterilization of glassware/plastic wares and similar laboratory activities

Thinninig and harvesting of azolla culture & preparation and filling of nutrient solution

Planting of fruit crops and silvicultural crops (Pit digging, filling with soil and manures and planting)

Application of manures and fertilizers on fruit and forest crops (twice in a year)

Application of pesticides on fruit and forest crops

Application of irrigation on fruits and forest crops (during dry season)

Pruning, thinning and trimming of fruit and forest crops (once a year)

Harvesting of fruit trees (once)

Showing/transplanting of vegetable and ornamental crops

Intercultural operation (application of fertilizers,irrigation,spraying, if required) in vegitable and ornamental crops

Harvesting of vegetable and ornamental crops

Cutting of paddy straw boundle, soaking in water, inoculation with spawn and covering

Harvesting of mushroom (once)

Daily stock feeding, cleaning and fraging of poultry birds/duck (one unit consist of 5 goats)

Sampling of fish for observation (including netting, taking observation of fish etc.)

Netting of fish (once in each system)

Fixing and removal of tensiometer / moisture meter tubes (involing carefl digging up to 100 cm and putting tubes and packing tightly with soil)

Irrigation pots as need

Agricultural operation works of phenotyping for BPH/GM/LF/GLH/WBPH/YSB resistance/blast sheath blight/brown spot/false smut/sheath rot/tungro/bacterial blight/nematode/tolerance round the year

Operation works of Gene Bank

(i) Cleaning of gene bank surrounding, (ii) Packeting, stickering, sealing and taking out of seeds for indenters (5 trays), (iii) Arrangement of Germplasm packets in trays/shelves (20 trays)

Operation works RGA

Raising of plants in RGA (photoperiod of high tempreture /low temperature)

Maintenance of salinity micro-plots (2) and net house (1) to screen for salinity tolerance per season (six months) : Hydroponics culture (Seedling stage)/Pot culture (reproductive stage)/salinity tank (micro plots)

(i) Putting germinated seed on Styrofoam (2'x2' tray) (ii) Filling trays with nutrient solution and fixing Styrofoam and change of nutrient solution (2'x2' tray) (iii) Pot preparation (10"x10") with gravels and soil for reproductive stage salinity screening.

ARUN KUMAR NAYAK

Maa Tareni Contracts

M/s Jay Jagannath Contract Works