Jagatsinghpur district comes under East and South Eastern Coastal Plain agro-climatic zone of Odisha and mostly Rainfed. Monsoon variability is one of the major issues in establishing rice. Among the various factors responsible for realizing yield potential of rice, the transplanting time along with age of seedlings are the twin non-monetary crucial inputs. A total of 30 villages in 8 blocks of Jagatsinghpur district were selected using Probability Proportionate to Size (PPS) method applying on census-2011 data and 7 households were drawn randomly from each selected village. Open Data Kit (ODK) tool was used for Landscape diagnostic survey. Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Jagatsinghpur surveyed 210 randomly selected farmers in 2019 for Kharif 2018 rice and previous season crop to understand current crop production practices being followed by them.
- Farmers mostly follow manual transplanting method for rice crop establishment.
- Transplanting schedule of 9 to 23 July was found optimum resulting into higher grain yield of 4.63 t ha-1 compared to 24 June to 8 July (3.90 t ha-1 ), 24 July to 7 August (3.47 tha-1 ) and 8 to 21 August (4.26 t ha-1).
- Young age rice seedlings recorded higher yields ie 4.78 t ha-1 with 17-23 days and 4.53 t ha-1 with 24-30 days older seedling. As the age of seedlings increased > 30 days, yield decreased drastically (2.98 t ha-1 for 31-44 days) and lowest yield of 2.51 t ha-1 recorded with 45-51 days old seedling.
- Hand weeding at 50 DAT is mostly practiced for weed management in rice.
- Most of the farmers use their own seeds for sowing in the next year.
- In Rabi, farmers used to do extensive pulses cultivation. Still, 23 per cent of farmers are leaving their field as fallow during Rabi season in Jagatsinghpur.
- Odisha.KVK, Jagatsinghpur utilized 1.60 lakh for survey of CSISA Project.
