Crop Establishment

KEY CHECK 3:
Practiced Synchronous Planting after a Rest
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Period
PALAYCHECK SYSTEM FOR IRRIGATED LOWLAND RICE

Crop Establishment

KEY CHECK 3:
Practiced Synchronous
Planting after a Rest
Period

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 Rest Period
A period when the rice field is not planted with the same crop to be
fruitful in the next cropping season.

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Do farmers usually allow their field to rest
after harvest before the next planting
season?
Why or why not?
The availability of irrigation water in the
locality sometimes limits farmers
from following this practice.
Also, farmers tend to avoid the peak
season to get higher price of palay so they
plant earlier than the majority.

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 The term
“synchronous”…

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 Synchronous planting
If this is a field in Brgy.
Maligaya, and each
picture represents a
lot owned by a
different farmer…

Can you say that

farmers in Brgy.
Maligaya practice
synchronous planting?

Why or why not?

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 Importance of Key Check 3
Synchronous planting after a rest period…

 enables efficient use

of Irrigation water

 avoids overlapping incidence of

insect and disease population

 avoids significant yield loss

from pests

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the difference?
Now, imagine if the Isidro family
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of their youngest daughter on the same
day of Brgy. Maligaya’s fiesta.

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 Importance of Key Check 3
If farmers plant synchronously, crops can be harvested almost at the
same time, leaving no food source for insect pests to survive. In
contrast, if they plant asynchronously, insect pests will have a
continuous source of food to survive and persist
GLH from adjoining fields move
usually to younger plants
GLH from
adjacent field

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 Assessment of Key Check 3

Allowed the field to rest for at least

30 days after harvest before the
next cropping season.

Planted within 14 days before and

14 days after start of planting in
the majority of the irrigation
service area (or at least within the
applicable vicinity).

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 Recommendations to Achieve Key
Check 3
1. After harvesting, allow
the field to rest. Do not
plant the area with rice
for at least 30 days.

•to break the insect

pest cycle
•to allow good
decomposition of
organic materials
•to reduce inoculum

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 • Rest period breaks the insect pest cycle and
destroys disease host.

• Most of the insect pests have an average

life cycle of 30 days. By having a rest
period, these insect pests will not have
any food and habitat for them to survive
until the next cropping season.

Insect Pest Life Cycle

Stem borer 30-45 days
Brown
planthopper & 28-30 days
Green leafhopper

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 • Rest period reduces inoculum in the field.
• By leaving field idle, the source of diseases that
developed during the previous cropping season will
have died by the start of the next season.

• Rest period allows good decomposition of the rice

straw or organic materials that can serve as
fertilizer.

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 Recommendations to Achieve Key Check 3
2. Follow the local planting calendar to maximize the
use of irrigation within the community. Practice
synchronous planting at least within the applicable
vicinity.

14 days 14 days
before after
start of planting in the majority of the
irrigation service area or applicable
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 What factors may affect the
adoption of this practice?
Similar to rest period, farmers may base
their decision to practice synchronous
planting on the availability of irrigation
water in the locality and the peak season
of rice.

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 Input Output Outcome
- allowed the field
to rest for at practiced
least 30 days synchronous
planting after a - reduced
- planted within rest period yield loss
14 days before - efficient use of - high grain
and 14 days irrigation quality
after start of - reduced pest
planting in the - minimal
damage & disease
majority of the incidence damage
irrigation - avoided
to env’t &
service area (or overlapping one’s
at least within incidence of insect health
the applicable & disease
population
vicinity)
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Production Assistant:
Mr. Jan Adriel Daligdig

Technical Reviewer:
Mr. Genaro Rillon

Courseware Reviewers:
Ms. Lea dR. Abaoag; Ms. Ev Angeles

Note:
Presentation produced in 2019 based on results of
a series of consultation workshops with PhilRice
R&D staff; adapted from instructional
presentation produced by PhilRice in 2011.

You may use, remix, tweak, & build upon this

presentation non-commercially. However,
always
use with acknowledgment.

Unless otherwise stated, the names listed are

PhilRice staffers.
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Assessment of Key Check 3

Allowed the field to rest for _________days

at least 30after
harvest before the next cropping season.
Planted within ____days before and ____days
after the majority of the irrigation service
area at least within the applicable vicinity
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has been planted. 14

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Why is it important to
allow the field to rest
after harvest before the
next planting season?

• to break the insect pest cycle

• to reduce inoculum
• to allow good decomposition
of organic materials

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How does
synchronous
planting break the
life cycle of insect
pests?
When crops are harvested
at the same time, insect
pests will have no food
source to survive and
persist.

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THANK YOU
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