For preparing healthy and disease-free plants, proper drainage and high nutrient loamy soil is suitable and select the nursery near the source of irrigation.
By plowing the nursery area 3-4 times in summer and leaving the field empty so soil-related diseases are greatly reduced.
Nursery preparations are done one month before sowing. Weeds should be allowed to grow in the nursery area by giving water at an interval of 15 days and by plowing or
Destroy the weeds by spraying nonselective weeds such as Paraquat dichloride 24% SL or Glyphosate 41% SL @ 1000 ml per acre. By doing this weeds will also be reduced in the main crop of paddy.
Add 1 kg of composting bacteria to 50 kg FYM. Then irrigate the field and keep water in the field for two days.
1.5-2.0 meter width and 8-10 meter length should be kept for proper care of the nursery beds. The nursery requires an area of 400 square meters for 1 acre.
In the nursery, the crop requires proper vegetative growth as well as root development. Spray urea 20 kg + humic acid in 3 kg per acre nursery.
Sowing of paddy should be started as soon as the rain starts. Sowing time is best from mid-June to the first week of July.