How to Grow

HYBRID RICE
Producing hybrid rice is the same as
growing ordinary rice except in

“SEED and SEEDLING MANAGEMENT”.

5 MAJOR COMPONENTS IN ATTAINING HIGH YIELD
SEED SELECTION

1. Use of recommended variety

 Use variety of hybrid rice that has been found promising in the area of the
same season.

10-15% increase
in yield

- Use new seeds every season. Don’t use seeds

harvested from previous cropping.
 SEED MANAGEMENT
Seed preparation
Re-heat
• Re-heat the seed at least 2 hours before
soaking
Soaking
• Soak seeds for 24 hours in clean water and
change water every six (6) hours.
Incubation
• Incubate for 24 hours in a shaded place or
until a radicle emerge;
• Keep seeds warm and moist during
incubation to facilitate germination
 SEEDLING MANAGEMENT
Seedbed preparation and Sowing
 Construct 400 m2 seedbed (1m wide, of any length);
 Incorporate uniformly 5-10 bags of organic fertilizer on the seedbed
 Sow pre-germinated seeds at a rate of only 50 g/m2 (about a handful)
to ensure healthy growth of seedlings;
 Soil press the seeds if rain is expected within 12 hours
 Apply fertilizer at 10 days after sowing
(DAS) using 14-14-14 at 25 kg per 400m2
 Maintain 1-2 cm (less than half thumb high) of water.
Note: Do not apply Inorganic Fertilizer as Basal
 LAND PREPARATION
2. No high & low soil areas after final levelling
 Prepare the land 3-4 weeks before transplanting;
 Plow once and harrow 3 times at weekly interval;
 Properly clean and repair dikes and ditches;
 Submerge the field for one (1) day to soften the soil;
 To hasten decomposition, apply CFA at 20 packs/ha
(33 g/pack). Spray directly to the field after first
harrowing.(optional)
 CROP ESTABLISHMENT
3. Practice synchronous planting
Synchronous planting minimizes
the overlapping incidence of insect
pests and disease population.

 The field should have a fallow period of at least 30 days

after harvest.
 The area should be planted within 14 days before and
after the majority of the irrigation service area has been
planted.
 CROP ESTABLISHMENT
4. Sufficient number of healthy seedlings
compete better root better nutrient
better against growth uptake
weeds

more efficient
nutrient use
Healthy seedlings
 Sowing right amount of seeds
 Transplanting right amount of
seedlings
 Giving right nutrients
 TRANSPLANTING
• Wet Season: 1-2 seedlings/hill at
20 cm x 20 cm

Transplant the seedlings 18 to 21 DAS.

Replant missing hills within 7 days after transplanting (DAT).

There should be at least 25 hills/m2.

 NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
5. Sufficient nutrients at tillering to early panicle initiation & flowering
NUTRIENTS

OVERSUPPLY SUFFICIENT UNDERSUPPLY

pest uniform less tillers

damage growth
slow
lodging uniform growth
panicle dev’t
attainment low grain
of yield weight
potential
NUTRIENT MANAGEMENT
 WATER MANAGEMENT
6. Avoid excessive water that could affect the growth
and yield of the crop
 Maintain a 3-5 cm water depth from 10 DAT or 10-15
DAS to near crop maturity to ensure water status for
optimum crop growth and yield;
 Alternate Wetting and Drying (AWD) can be started 21
DAT to suppression of the weeds by the ponded water
and improved the efficacy of herbicide.
 Drain water or stop irrigation 1-2 weeks before harvest;
 PEST MANAGEMENT
7. No significant yield loss due to pests at vegetative stage
Use varieties resistant to pests and diseases
prevalent in the community;
 Maintain cleanliness in the rice field;
 Practice synchronous planting;
 Conserve beneficial organisms;
 Use pesticides only when needed;
 Conduct regular monitoring.
 PEST MANAGEMENT
Bacterial Leaf Blight (BLB)
 Avoid wounding seedlings during transplanting;
 Maintain shallow water in seedbed;
 Avoid excessive N fertilization; apply in split;
 Provide good drainage for severe flooding;
 Plow under rice stubble and straw after
harvest;
 Observe fallow period; and
 Plant resistant variety
 PEST MANAGEMENT
Rice “Tungro” Virus
 There is no need to spray when: Practice
synchronous
• Still at the seedbed/seedling stage; planting
• plants that are more than 60 days old;
• no tungro if no leaf hopper
 Destroy stubbles in tungro-infected rice field right after
harvest
 Do not plant rice in the affected field for at least a
month to eliminate hosts of GLH and tungro virus.
 PEST MANAGEMENT
Golden Apple Snail (GAS)
Handpick GAS by:
• using attractants (leaves of gabi, banana, papaya, and even old
newspapers);
• placing a wire screen or woven bamboo on the main irrigation
water inlet and outlet;
 Construct small canals along the edges;
 Put bamboo stakes in water-logged areas of the paddy
or near canals;
 Herd of ducks in rice paddies after harvest up to the
last harrowing.
 Spray molluscicide as last resort
Drain the field
 PEST MANAGEMENT
Rodents
 Construct baits
 Dig of rat burrows and holes
 Use of flame thrower
 Use blanketing method
 Minimize size of levees (6” wide x 8” high)
to avoid rat burrows
 Remove all straw piles in the field after harvest
 Trap barrier system (TBS)

To effectively manage rats, community-wide baiting is recommended

 HARVEST AND POSTHARVEST MANAGEMENT
8. Cut & thresh the crop at the right time
HARVESTING
Grains are 80-85% golden
yellow for shattering
TOO EARLY TIMELY TOO LATE varieties; 90% for non-
shattering varieties
large % good grain grain
of immature quality shattering
& half-
filled high market milling
breakage Thresh paddy rice right
grains value after or a day after
low MR, low grain harvest, if possible
low grain consumer quality
quality acceptance
HARVEST AND POSTHARVEST MANAGEMENT

 Use prescribed methods of drying to

minimize grain damage and pest
infestation Sun drying

 Store the palay at 14% moisture Prone to grain cracking “basag na

butil”
content (MC)
 Dry palay gradually and mix
frequently to ensure even drying.
Thank you!