Soya

Crop Establishment

Sowing Cropping Pattern

Sowing

Where irrigation facility is available sowing before monsoon gives good results.
In areas developed on monsoon rains sowing should start with the first shower and should be completed in last week of June.
Row to Row distance should be 45 cm.
When crop is sown in July this distance should be reduced to 35 cm to cover up the losses.

Plant to plant distance should be 4.5 cm and in one acre of land plant population should be 1.5 to 2 lakh.

Methods of sowing

It is recommended that seed and the fertilizer should be shown with the help of drill machine. Tractor mounted or bullock drawn seed drill can be used.
If drill is not available the fertilizer should be spreaded evenly and mixed thoroughly to the soil with the help of plough.

Management of the Crop after sowing

For the good growth of the soybean plant and good yield it is must that weeds should be effectively controlled during first 30-40 days.
Farmers use shallow plough for this inter culture operation.
It helps in weed removal and soil also gets aerated but an standing crop this operation may damage the crop.
After sowing whichever weedicide is available in the market should be used for weed control.
There are many chemicals, which are used for chemical control of weeds.

Seed Rate

It depends on cropping distance, seed weight and its germination rate, generally 30 kg certified seed is required for one acre up land. Its germination % should be 70% but the seed saved from the previous crop has very low 50% germination percentage therefore 40-45 kg seed is required for one acre of land. Good quality seed produced by Monsanto Company (MMB) which has 85% germination 28 kg per acre should be used.

Seed Treatment

Seed should be treated with thiram plus carbendazim fungicides (1.5 + 1.5 gm) @ 3 gm per kg of seed to protect the seed from fungal diseases i.e., seedrot etc., seed should also be treated with bacterium culture (Rhizobium japonica) which helps root nodules to fix nitrogen from the air by making them more effective. Seed should be wetted with the culture and dried in shade and sown same day. If soils is deficient in phosphorus then seed should be treated with phosphorus solubilizing bacterium (PSB) @ 5 gm per kg of seed.

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Cropping Pattern

Soybean mainly grown in Kharif season.
At present, area covered under soybean cultivation is 4.25 million hec.

Rabi

In hot season (Rabi) good variety of soybean can be grown with the help of production technique. Mainly in central and Southern datray India soybean is grown in Rabi season.
In Southern India saya is grown in Rabi season mainly for seed purpose so in coming Kharif season it can be used as seed.
Other than Maharastra generally after Soyabean crop-Wheat is sown.
In some places farmers take Potato crop after Soybean, generally soybean is grown as single crop but it can also be grown with crops like sugarcane, cotton, maize, ragi, arhar etc., some crop rotations are given below,

Punjab

Soyabean-Wheat-Barley

Haryana

Soybean-Cauliflower-Mustard

Madhya Pradesh

Soyabean-Wheat

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Andhra Pradesh

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About Soya

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Services Overview

The key services offered by Ikisan are:

System study, design and development of IT enabled solutions and services for the agri sector.

Execution of rural IT enabled projects on BOT/BOOT/Turnkey basis.

Development, Customization and Deployment of Ikisan's IPR protected software applications.

Providing support services and best management practices for augmenting the marketing development efforts of the groups agricultural input companies (NFCL and NACL).

Development and Dissemination of best practice and information though a unique multi lingual knowledge website for the agri sector.

Some of the key customers/partners that benefit significantly from our work include are Electronics Corporation of India Ltd, State Agricultural Marketing Boards, Central Research Institute for Dryland Agriculture, Andhra Pradesh, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Motorola Mobility (GOOGLE) etc.

As highlighted earlier Ikisan provides significant support to the market development and marketing efforts of NFCL and NACL by providing best practices and information across the agricultural input value chain - weather, soil, seeds, fertilizers, water, pesticides, output prices etc. that have enabled the companies to develop deep customer relationships and in turn enable them to grow above market growth rates. Recently example in fertilizers includes the development of Customized Fertilizer Grades (for NFCL across India that are crop and location specific have not only reduced the current consumption of fertilizers of farmers but have significantly enhanced crop yields and farmer incomes) that are expected to add significant revenues to the company.

Currently, agriculture value chain is driven by technical expertise. However, there is a lack of adequate Management knowledge and skills amongst the professionals. Therefore, Ikisan and XLRI, Jamshedpur have jointly developed an Agri Business Management Program for Agri-professionals and students. Ikisan provides the domain expertise while XLRI provides pedagogy. This program is a combination of virtual learning and campus based module at XLRI, Jamshedpur. This program has been highly appreciated.

Intellectual Property Rights for many software applications such as Field Manager, Vyapar, Mandi, Quick Solutions Systems, Management Time Table, Agri Information System and Agrecommerz belong to Ikisan. A significant recent development in this area is the introduction of Weather Based Crop Insurance. This entails setting up of Automatic Weather Stations, which provide dynamic village-level data essential for settlement of weather based insurance claims.