Rice

Integrated Pest Management

Growing pest resistant rice varieties -Gallmidge and BPH resistant varieties with other desirable traits are available now. Depending on the region (key pest of the area) variety should be opted.
Nursery protection by applying carbofuran granules @ 40 kg/ha or Phorate @ 12.5 kg/ha of nursery bed before 5 -7 days of pulling the seedlings in endemic areas of gallmidge and stem borer only.
Transplanting at appropriate stage after removal of terminal part (2 to 4") of seedlings to reduce the chances of carrying and migration of immature stages of yellow stem borer and leaf folders. Leaving alleys after every 5 metres in the main field is advantageous for field monitoring as well as manual movement to take up required interventions.
Monitoring and fixed area (bench mark site) surveys to understand pest and associated beneficial fauna development. Adoption of prescribed sequential sampling plans for assessing different stages of plant and leaf hoppers as well as stem and leaf damages is ideal.
Using pheromone traps (8 per acre) and light traps to understand the brood initiation of yellow stem borer, leaf folder and climbing cut worm should form a basic step in each situation.
Adoption of mechanical practices like rope running to expose case worm and leaf folder larvae before going to chemical interventions.
Regulating 'N' applications to avoid nutritional resurgence of plant and leaf hoppers. Supplementing N with K2O and neem coated materials for better utility and reduction of negative effects.
Application of recommended insecticides - Endosulfan / Monocrotophos / Carbaryl / Chlorpyriphos / Quinalphos to reduce leaf folders and climbing cut worm as well as yellow borer if situation warrants.
Harvesting of crop to ground level to reduce the chances of yellow stem borer and gallmidge build up, since stubbles serve as reservoir of these pests under many situations.
Creating avenues for broad spectrum predators like spiders by maintaining shelters in and around rice fields during off season. Similarly rice crop maintenance should be in the process of conserving and exploiting of potential predators like mirids, dragon flies and carabid beetles, common in rice eco-system.

Management of Diseases

Sheath Blight	:	Use of disease free seed. Avoid close spacing, seed treatment with Carbendazim 50 WP @2.5 g/kg seed or soaking seed in Carbendazim @1g/l of water for 24 hours or spraying Propiconazole 25 EC (Tilt) @ 1ml/l or Hexaconazole 5 EC (Cantof) @2ml/l or Validamycin 3@ 2ml/l.
Bacterial Blight	:	Use of disease free seed. Grow tolerant varieties like Swarna and MTU 4870. No chemical is effective. Avoid excess N and water.
Tungro Virus	:	Cultivate tolerant varieties like MTU 9992, IET 7301, IET 7302, IET 8558, MTU 1002 to MTU 1005. Removal and destruction of affected plants. Vectors (GLH) can be controlled with Carbofuran 3G (10 kg/acre) / Monocrotophos 2ml/l or Chlorpyriphos 2 ml/l.
Blast	:	Cultivate tolerant varieties like IR 36, IR 64, MTU 9991, MTU 9992, MTU 7014, NLR 28600, Pinakini, Tikkana etc. Treat the seed with Carbendazim 50 WP @ 2.5g/kg seed or with Tricyclozole @ 1g/kg seed. Spray Ediphenphos 50 EC @1ml/l or Trycyclozole 75WP @0.6 g/l soon after observing symptoms and another spray 15 days after.

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Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Tamil Nadu, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.