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Paddy farming 2015 - Season 2

North east monsoon was delayed and there was no rain in October. Road work was in progress and hence tractor couldn't enter farm for ploughing...finally it was all well delayed..Because of delayed monsoon, farmers are not having water for making seed bed ready and some are pumping water from wells, some has gone for direct seeding, some are not cultivating.

Ploughing was done with tractor with cage wheel attachment on November 6th. Around 6Kgs seeds were put in soaking on November 9th. This is a traditional seed called 'Kunju Kunju' which is supposed to be very tasty. Germinated seeds were put on the bed. Bed was created by spreading banana leaves and putting mud over it. Since nursery is done after puddling the field, the field will have to wait till the seedlings are ready, typically 10 days. By this time, grass starts to dominate...this has to be avoided, by raising nursery in a separate area. Rice has germinated and growing...many seeds haven't germinated, not sure why.... Nursery looks good now.. Planting device for planting at 30 cm distance..personally planted in some area,,,it is much better than using a rope method. another device...Thanks to Dr.Kathiresan Guruswamy for this device..I made this device using GI pipes..please see the video for the original device designed by Dr.Kathiresan Guruswamy.. Transplanting completed...more or less line is kept using the device... Not flooding the field this time, following SRI guidelines...weeds have started coming...have to weed in another 2-3 days...walking is easy since there is enough space...weeding can be done using hand, just stirring the muddy soil.. Weeds are growing at full speed...started first weeding today..one woman labour and myself started it. I got a cono weeder from a friend and started using it. It looks to be a useful tool, even though some paddy plants were also affected during weeding, but could restore them... Allowed water after weeding, now will let it dry...some dry cowdung also was applied... Doing one more weeding using Cono-weeder since it will help in aeration.. Cono weeding completed.. Started flowering.... Bird perches put for birds to control pests.....


There was no pest attack this time...getting ready for harvest Harvesting is completed...total effort was 4 women labourers and 3 men labourers. Got around 240Kgs of paddy, enough food for next 5 months. Some photos.... Harvesting team, has a young member named Akshaya, she is not employed, just do it for fun for some time... Since gap is 25-30 cm and tillers were less (maximum 20, average 12), it is diverging from centre and cutting using Scythe was not easy. Also Scythe was not having harvesting fitting, has to try with that. But grain shedding was not there, when cut using Scythe, that is very encouraging. Cracks started coming in the field and it is rock solid....may be all issues with tilling....but right now no choice, no tilling does not work to this extend. Scattered around 0.5 Kgs of sesame and 4 Kgs of horse gram and 2 Kgs of cowpea and mulched straw over this. The process is not complete, will water it and will let it grow, mainly used as green manure. Posted by Nandakumar at 3:15 AM dairy farming said...

hey there, good to know that you are following the old school method for planting the seeds....
i am from karnataka and we are into the dairy farming business..
our cow recently gave birth to a calf and a bull, as we are planning to walk out of the business we have 8 bulls which are fit and strong..Strong enough to plough the field, if you are in need of it please contact me by my mail id....
thank you and wish you all the best with the harvest and please keep posting, you have a great blog here.

November 14, 2015 at 9:18 PM Nandakumar said...

Thank you so much for the comments and this offer...right now I am not in a position to take care of the bulls..I have 2 cows and maintaining more than that is difficult...


November 18, 2015 at 8:22 AM Shiya Priya said...

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Hello! Just found your site and wanted to thank you for all the information you give. Very interesting site. Hope your harvest is plentiful. :)

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