Procedure for Organic Rice Production

Procedure for Organic Rice Production

Pre-requisite

1. Establish physical gap (buffer zone) between your organic rice paddy from your neighboring rice paddies.  The physical gap must be able to ward off contamination from the neighboring non-organic rice paddy.  While the organic standards (USDA and Philippine Organic Standards) does not specify how wide is the distance, most practitioners uses the rough rule of 50 feet distance between the neighboring farms.
    

After Every Harvest 

1. Add and disperse Bokashi Composts (Note: 1 hectare requires 4 tons of composts); or 80 sacks (@50kgs per sack) of Chicken or Cow Manure
   
2. Apply 500 liters per hectare of diluted JMS or EMAS; or 2.5 liters (concentrate) or 250 liters (diluted at 10ml PSB to 1 liter of water) of PSB
   
3. Leave Rice Straws in the Field and use as Natural Mulch and cover the soil as much as possible

 

Seedling Application

1. Soak rice seedlings for 24 to 48 hrs in Trichoderma Fungi solution (1 pack to 40 liters); or Mycorrhizal Fungi solution (1pack to 40 liters)
   

 

Before Transplanting

1. Plant green manure 3 weeks before transplanting 
2. Slight plow in the green manure 2 days before transplanting
3. Apply 500 liters of diluted JMS and 200 liters of JLF (or diluted FPJ, FAA, FFJ) per hectare

 

After Transplanting

1. After transplanting, spray the field / plant with Trichoderma solution (1 pack to 40 liters); or Mycorrhizal Fungi solution (1pack to 40 liters)
2. On the 1st week, apply the field / plant with 500 liters per hectare of diluted JMS or EMAS; or 2.5 liters (concentrate) or 250 liters (diluted at 10ml PSB to 1 liter of water) of PSB; and 200 liters of diluted JLF (or diluted FPJ, FAA, FFJ)
   
3. Repeat the process you did during the 1st week on the 2nd week and onwards
   
4. Depending on the rice variety, rice takes about 95 (early variety) to 250 (late variety) days
   

PEST Management

• For INSECT Pests, spray Beauveria solution (1 pack to 40 liters) once and observe effectiveness after 1 week.  Repeat application, when no visible effectiveness is observed.  You should see dead pests covered with white fungus (i.e., Beauveria).  [Caution:  Beauveria affects the entire Phylum Arthropoda (Invertebrate with exoskeleton) that includes spiders, mites, insects, centipedes, and millipedes] 
• For Mollusks (Snails), place barriers (screen) in the entry and exit points of irrigation water.  Snails eat young and emerging plants.  It has been observed that as rice plants mature, it becomes unpalatable to the snails which then turn to consuming weeds around rice paddies.  So direct seeded rice is more vulnerable than transplanted rice.  Local domesticated ducks can also be deployed in rice paddies to eat the snails.