Post rice green manuring

Growing green manures after harvesting khariff paddy, standing for 6-7 months until puddling the soil for khariff paddy called post rice green manuring. This practice possible for one season paddy growers. Monocots , dicots, oil seeds, millets, spices all mixed together can be grown for green manuring. Road side weeds like indigos, crotalarias, cassias are found to be the best for this practise. Daincha grows up to 14 feet and sun hemp grows upto 8 feet, tractors with double cage wheels would be required to incorporate them into the soil. During monsoon again broadcast 4 kgs of horse gram creeper, they will occupy the remaining space by climbing the green manures standing in the field. The perennial hardy grasses in the field starts withering due to lack of sunlight. Over 10 tonnes of huge biomass will be produced & 3-4 inches of the soil will filled with organic matter when we incorporated the green manures in this practice. This is three times more effective than Pre-rice green manuring. In 2-3 years degraded soils can be conditioned. This is the easiest, fastest, cheapest source to enrich our soil, which is only possible for the paddy growers. It is wise to puddle the soil with green manures than the empty lands.

Green Manuring along with summer crops

Farmers growing two crops of paddy can broadcast 5 to 7 kgs of fox gram (Pillipesalu) in the standing paddy crop at the time of final watering. It is a fast growing, semi aquatic plant and thrives well in these conditions. This is particularly useful during summer crop as it gets enough time to grow as green manure as well as fodder. 

Fast growing ones like daincha, sunhemp should be avoided, weeds are the best green manures for semi irrigated summer crops like green gram, black gram , cowpea, horse gram, jowar etc., these crops can be harvested in 3 months. Then broadcast the field with 4 kgs per acre of horse gram; this creeper will climb on the plants acts as 1st floor by doubling the biomass