MGF/SUITABLE GRANT

Raising of Primary Beds Primary beds of 1x1x0.3 m size for Miscellaneous species including bamboo – 50 primary beds for 1 lakh nursery is permitted. Primary beds should start from Jan – May depending on availability of fresh seeds. Once primary beds are formed, they can be used upto 5 years without changing the medium – what is required each time is solarization, burning a layer of grass on it and adding the below recommended fungicides and insecticides to the medium.

Cost of sandy soil and transportation with 5 kms lead including loading and unloading charges (sandy soil and FYM in 5:1 ratio, i.e., 0.125 cum sandy soil and 0.025 cum FYM per primary bed

Mixing of sandy soil and FYM in 5:1 proportion (50 % of volume of bed) with exacavated soil and refilling the bed and levelling.

Covering the beds with dried grass and leaf litter and burning them to ash which can form the upper layer

Cost of seed - seed weight, germination percentage and target of planting stock of individual species are to be taken into consideration while estimating the requirement of seeds

Sowing of seed (finer seeds like Adina, Mitragyna, Anthocephalus etc. to be mixed with sand and broadcast - Bigger seeds to be dibbled in lines 1-2 cm apart) and covering the bed to a thickness of 2.5 cm with paddy hay including cost and conveyance

Watering the primary nursery beds with rose water cans twice daily for a maximum period of 2 months.

Cost of chemicals, fungicide and insecticide

Site preparation for Old Site - Clearing of growth, weeds, grass etc.,

Cost of Gusseted Polybags (including the cost of certification): To ensure quality control, the quality of bags have to be certified by CIPET (Central Institute of Plastic Engineering & Technology), Hyderabad at the cost of tenderer by taking samples from various lots of gussetted polybags.

Cost and Transport of ingredients for Potting Mixture: Red Soil, tank-silt, FYM in 2:1:1 ratio. To this soil mixture, 220 gm of Indophyll M-45, 4.5 kg of single super phosphate (SSP) and 250 gm of phorate granules per 1 cum of potting mixture will be added. Cost of chemicals is as per actuals

For every extra km beyond 5 km up to 25 km

Preparation of Potting Mixture by powdering of various ingredients, sieving and mixing them in prescribed proportion; opening of bags and filling with potting mixture and gently pressing the same with finger tips and arranging in beds.

Alignment of beds including alignment of inspection paths etc

Pricking out seedlings from primary beds and transplanting into polybags

Sowing / dibbling of pre-treated seeds (e.g. Yegisa, Nalamadi, Yerumaddi etc.) directly into bags including cost of treatment

Watering the plants twice a day from October - March

Weeding to be done for every 2 months from the date of transplantation up to March ( Three Times)

1st shifting and grading after three months and consecutive shifting and grading after every two months till the nursery stock is lifted ( Three Times)

replacement of casualties after sorting out the empty bags and keeping at one end of the bed (maximum 10% of total stock is permissible)

Cost of foliar nutritient formulations like multiplex or NPK-19:19:19; fungicides and insecticides

Weeding in the space between the beds, inspection path and sorroundings of Nursery

Cost of Protection: One Nursery Watcher is allowed up to1 lakh RT nursery or 100 secondary beds of polybags / 100 Teak beds of 10 m x 1 m size or combination of both. One additional Nursery Watcher is permitted for nurseries having more than 1 lakh upto 3 lakh RT seedlings or more than 100 upto 300 secondray beds or Teak beds of 10 m x 1 msize or combination of both. For more than 3 lakh RT or 300secodary beds of Teak beds or combination of both anotheradditional Nursery Watcher is allowed. While calculating the number of Nursery Watcher, care shall be taken to include the nursery raising under all Schemes at a particular site. No extra Nursery Watcher is allowed for primary beds of 1 m x1 m size. However, the above narrative is subject to the provisions cited under general instructions.