Question

Give me any olden days recipe using kharif crops. 90 points if you answer!

Answer 1

Table of Contents
Nutritional value
Climatic and soil requirements
Suitable crop rotations
Field preparation
Application of farm yard manure/green manure in the field
Rice varieties
Seed selection
Seed treatment
Seed rate
Sowing time in nursery
Transplanting
Nursery-MAT Type
Transplanting
Fertilizer management
Irrigation management
Weed management
Insect management
Disease management
Harvesting and threshing
Marketing and storage
Management of paddy straw

Nutritional value
Rice is composed of carbohydrates, with small amount of protein and virtually no fat.
Carbohydrates in rice are mainly in the form of starch, accounting for up to 90% of the total dry weight and 87% of the total caloric content.
High digestibility is one of the downsides of the carbohydrate in sticky rice. For a high carbohydrate food, good digestibility is not always favorable because it may cause an unhealthy spike in blood sugar especially among diabetics.
Contents of 100 g White rice,short grain, cooked

Constituents Amount
Calories 130
Water 69%
Protein 2.4 g
Carbohydrates 28.7 g
Omega 3 0.01 g
Fat 0.2 g
Climatic and soil requirement
Climate

Rice crop needs hot and humid climate.
Rice is best suited to areas which have high humidity, prolonged sunshine and assured water supply.
The average temperature required throughout the life period of the crop ranges from 21 to 37OC.
The crop requires higher temperature at tillering than growth.
Temperature requirement at blooming is in the range of 26.5 and 29.5OC.
At the time of ripening the temperature should be between 20-25OC.
Favorable range of relative humidity is 83-85 percent for early varieties and 67-68 percent for late varieties.
Soil

Rice can grow well on a wide range of soils having low permeability and good water retention capacity.
Loam to clay loam is more suitable for rice cultivation.Such soils are capable of holding water for long and sustain crop.
Rice plant is able to tolerate a wide range of soil reaction i.e.pH between 5 and 9 but optimum pH range is between 5.5 and 6.5.
Suitable crop rotations
Rice-Wheat
Rice-Sunflower
Rice-Berseem
Rice- Linseed
Rice- Gram
Rice-Barley
Rice-Wheat-Summer moongRice-Celery
Rice-Potato-Celery
Rice-Wheat-Green manuring
Rice-Peas-Celery
Rice-Toria-Sunflower
Rice-Gram-Summer
MoongRice-Toria-Sunflower
Rice-Potato- Sunflower
Rice-Mustard-Moong

Field preparation
First ploughing may be done with a soil turning plough and subsequent ploughings may be done with a desi plough or harrow.
Repair all bunds.
Use land leveler for land leveling before puddling to enhance on farm water use efficiency and other farm inputs.
Fill the field with water before transplanting and give 1-2 ploughings in standing water followed by planking and field will become muddy or use puddler or rotavator for puddling. One ploughing with rotavator may be done in standing water followed by planking.
Obtain a fine well leveled puddled field to reduce water loss through percolation, to maintain good seedling vigor and to control weeds.
Application of farm yard manure/green manure in the field
Apply 6 tons of Farm yard manure per acre. Since FYM is not available in sufficient quantities, green manuring by Dhaincha/cowpea/sunhemp is a very practicable alternative. After harvesting wheat or any other preceding crop, apply irrigation and sow 20 kg dhaincha seed presoaked in water for 8 hours or 12 kg/acre of cowpea (20 kg if bold seed is used) or 20 kg/acre of sunhemp up to first week of May. Apply 75 kg superphosphate/acre to Dhaincha/ cowpea/sunhemp in soils low in P and omit application of P to the succeeding rice crop. Burry 6-8 weeks old Dhaincha/cowpea/sunhemp before transplanting of paddy. This practice results in saving of 20-25 kg of N/acre. Other alternative is that moong crop after picking of pods may be incorporated in the soil before transplanting. Green manuring increases nitrogen status of the soil and also supplies other nutrients like potassium sulphur and zinc.

Rice varieties
Variet

Answer 2

Jowar.
Rice (paddy and deepwater)
Millet.
Maize (corn)
Soybean.
Turmeric.
Groundnut.