Manual of Rice Crops

Day

Work / Activities

Material

Action

Type

Rate

One week after harvest

 -50

Redeem the rice stump

* Release the entire area using a 4-wheel tractor and 'rotary slasher' or 'disk mover'.

* Scatter straw to smooth

Burn the rice straw

* Burns straws and stumps regulated and evenly for the purpose of killing disease pathogens, pests, angina rice seeds and weeds.

-40

Build / repair ropes, drainage ditches and water level control boxes per lot

* Make sure each lot has 1 control box that works

Installing a nest of bird nests for rat control

* Make sure the number of humpback boxes is appropriate and functional.

* Put 'T' wood in each of the 4 corners.

-35

Determine soil pH

* Take samples from 4 locations / ha randomly at depths of 0-25cm and 25cm-50cm and make one composite per depth and send them to the Earth Science Laboratory for analysis or take soil pH readings using portable pH meters

Poison the weeds of the rice paddy and the rice paddy

Recommended herbicides - Appendix i & ii

Follow the label instructions

* Spray should be done in the morning * If using a fan sprayer it does not use fan type nozzles.