Crop Establishment
KEY CHECK 3:
Practiced Synchronous Planting after a Rest
Period
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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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SCENARIO A
What do you think
will happen?
Imagine the Isidro family of Brgy. Maligaya
preparing a feast for all residents to
celebrate the wedding of their youngest
daughter.
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SCENARIO B
Can you imagine
the difference?
Now, imagine if the Isidro family
intentionally held the wedding
celebration of their youngest daughter
on the same day of Brgy. Maligaya’s
fiesta.
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What if…?
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= Rice fields
= Insect pests
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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
GLH from usually to younger plants
adjacent field
rest early tillering late tillering GLH moves to younger plants
stubbl
e
1 DAT 10035
70
50
e.g. tungro disease caused by GLH
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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 to env’t &
- avoided
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.
Review!
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Assessment of Key Check 3
Allowed the field to rest for at_________days
least 30
after harvest before the next cropping
season.
Planted within ____days before and ____days
after the majority
14 of the irrigation 14 service
area at least within the applicable vicinity
has been planted.
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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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